But in that respect they acted with feverish excitement, and without any display of excessive prudence.

They only thought vaguely of the probable consequences of a murder committed without flight and immunity being ensured.

They felt the invincible necessity to kill one another, and yielded to this necessity like furious brutes.

They would not have exposed themselves for their first crime, which they had so cleverly concealed, and yet they risked the guillotine, in committing a second, which they did not even attempt to hide.
Here was a contradiction in their conduct that they never so much as caught sight of.

Both simply said to themselves that if they succeeded in fleeing, they would go and live abroad, taking all the cash with them.