This explained his rapid rise in life, and the constant favour he enjoyed.

In the very first words he spoke he alluded to the new ministry gazetted that morning, referring pointedly to the strong-handed man who had undertaken the task of reassuring peaceable citizens and making evil-doers tremble.
Then he fell upon the wretched Salvat with extraordinary vehemence, recounting the whole of his life, and exhibiting him as a bandit expressly born for the perpetration of crime, a monster who was bound to end by committing some abominable and cowardly outrage.

Next he flagellated Anarchism and its partisans.

The Anarchists were a mere herd of vagabonds and thieves, said he.

That had been shown by the recent robbery at the Princess de Harn's house.