Fortunately for him, he had no such scruples.

What signified a few dead bodies, more or less?
Nonsense! kill! kill at random! cut them down! shoot, cannonade, crush, smash! Strike terror for me into this hateful city of Paris! The _coup d'etat_ was in a bad way; this great homicide restored its spirit.

Louis Bonaparte had nearly ruined himself by his felony; he saved himself by his ferocity.

Had he been only a Faliero, it was all over with him; fortunately he was a Caesar Borgia.

He plunged with his crime into a river of gore; one less culpable would have sunk, he swam across.