He used it now.
"In doing this they are striking at the very foundations of the throne.
These fools do not perceive that if that throne falls over, it is they who stand nearest to it who will be crushed." A terrific roar acclaimed that statement.

Tense and quivering with the excitement that was flowing through him, and from him out into that great audience, he stood a moment smiling ironically.

Then he waved them into silence, and saw by their ready obedience how completely he possessed them.

For in the voice with which he spoke each now recognized the voice of himself, giving at last expression to the thoughts that for months and years had been inarticulately stirring in each simple mind.
Presently he resumed, speaking more quietly, that ironic smile about the corner of his mouth growing more marked: "In taking my leave of M.de Lesdiguieres I gave him warning out of a page of natural history.

I told him that when the wolves, roaming singly through the jungle, were weary of being hunted by the tiger, they banded themselves into packs, and went a-hunting the tiger in their turn.