All five of them were in the prime of life, and, by their toilettes and the air that clung to them, belonged unmistakably to the noblesse.
One glance did Mademoiselle bestow upon that tragic spectacle, then with a shudder she drew back, her face going deathly white.
"Why did you bid me look ?" she moaned.
"That for yourself you might see," he answered pitilessly, "the road by which your lover is to journey." "Mon Dieu!" she cried, wringing her hands, "it is horrible.

Oh! You are not men, you Revolutionists.

You are beasts of prey, tigers in human semblance." He shrugged his shoulders.
"Great injustices beget great reactions.

Great wrongs can only be balanced by great wrongs.

For centuries the power has lain with the aristocrats, and they have most foully abused it.