In fact, I have never killed a man at all.
It isn't in my nature.

I shouldn't sleep of nights if I did.

But men are differently made." "The question, monsieur my godfather," said Andre-Louis, "is what is to be done." He was quite calm and self-possessed, but very white.
M.de Kercadiou stared at him blankly out of his pale eyes.
"Why, what the devil is there to do?
From what I am told, Vilmorin went so far as to strike M.le Marquis." "Under the very grossest provocation." "Which he himself provoked by his revolutionary language.

The poor lad's head was full of this encyclopaedist trash.

It comes of too much reading.