"Sir, permit me to point out to you that the man whom you have just seen is not a highwayman." "Bah! Frankly, what is he then ?" "He is in all probability a young man of as good a family as yours or mine." "Count Horn, whom the Regent ordered broken on the wheel at the Place de Greve, was also a man of good family, and the proof is that all the nobility of Paris sent their carriages to his execution." "Count Horn, if I remember rightly, murdered a Jew to steal a note of hand which he was unable to meet.

No one would dare assert that a Companion of Jehu had ever so much as harmed the hair of an infant." "Well, be it so.

We will admit that the Company was founded upon a philanthropic basis, to re-establish the balance of fortunes, redress the whims of chance and reform the abuses of society.

Though he may be a robber, after the fashion of Karl Moor, your friend Morgan--was it not Morgan that this honest citizen called himself ?" "Yes," said the Englishman.
"Well, your friend Morgan is none the less a thief." Citizen Alfred de Barjols turned very pale.
"Citizen Morgan is not my friend," replied the young aristocrat; "but if he were I should feel honored by his friendship." "No doubt," replied Roland, laughing.

"As Voltaire says: 'The friendship of a great man is a blessing from the gods.'" "Roland, Roland!" observed his comrade in a low tone.
"Oh! general," replied the latter, letting his companion's rank escape him, perhaps intentionally, "I implore you, let me continue this discussion, which interests me in the highest degree." His friend shrugged his shoulders.
"But, citizen," continued the young man with strange persistence, "I stand in need of correction.