Roland seemed to lurk in the niches of a conversation in order to fall upon mankind whenever he found an opportunity.

Perceiving the impression he had made on Sir John's mind, he changed his tone, substituting bitter raillery for his philanthropic wrath.
"It is true," said he, "that, apart from this excellent aristocrat who finished what the butchers had begun, and dyed in blood the red heels of his pumps, the people who performed these massacres belonged to the lower classes, bourgeois and clowns, as our ancestors called those who supported them.

The nobles manage things much more daintily.

For the rest, you saw yourself what happened at Avignon.

If you had been told that, you would never have believed it, would you?
Those gentlemen pillagers of stage coaches pique themselves on their great delicacy.
They have two faces, not counting their mask.