"I should like to believe that the police do their duty, and that I never brush against a murderer on the pavement." Olivier considered this remark a personal attack.
"Certainly the police do their duty," he exclaimed in a vexed tone.
"Still we cannot do what is impossible.

There are wretches who have studied crime at Satan's own school; they would escape the Divinity Himself.

Isn't that so, father ?" "Yes, yes," confirmed old Michaud.

"Thus, while I was at Vernon--you perhaps remember the incident, Madame Raquin--a wagoner was murdered on the highway.

The corpse was found cut in pieces, at the bottom of a ditch.