I do not know what impression he left upon you, but I can tell you that you will go far to meet a more dangerous man.' I answered that I would go far to avoid meeting one, unless I had the means of defending myself, and my companion's dry chuckle showed that he appreciated my feelings.
'Yet he is an absolutely honest man, which is no very common thing in these days,' said he.

'He is one of those who, at the outbreak of the Revolution, embraced it with the whole strength of his simple nature.
He believed what the writers and the speakers told him, and he was convinced that, after a little disturbance and a few necessary executions, France was to become a heaven upon earth, the centre of peace and comfort and brotherly love.

A good many people got those fine ideas into their heads, but the heads have mostly dropped into the sawdust-basket by this time.

Toussac was true to them, and when instead of peace he found war, instead of comfort a grinding poverty, and instead of equality an Empire, it drove him mad.

He became the fierce creature you see, with the one idea of devoting his huge body and giant's strength to the destruction of those who had interfered with his ideal.