"Because it would be an atonement for all his crimes, if he fell beneath the daggers of murderers.

Such daggers rendered the tyrant Julius Caesar a hero, a martyr, and they would also transform Napoleon into a demi-god.

No, we will not grant him such a triumph, such a glorious end--we will not allow him a speedy death.

He shall ignominiously disappear; he shall die slowly on some barren island in the ocean; die amid the tortures of solitude, of weariness, of powerless rage.

This must be the vengeance of Europe; this must be the end of the vampire who has drunk her heart's blood." "You are right?
it shall, it must be so," cried the count, with sparkling eyes.