There you find a process of reasoning--I have been five days getting hold of it.
"But tell me one thing first.

Brutus killed a man; Charlotte Corday killed a man.

One of the two victims was a fine tyrant, and the other a mean tyrant.

Nobody blames those two historical assassins.

Why then blame me for wishing to make a third?
Is a mere modern murderer beneath my vengeance, by comparison with two classical tyrants who did _their_ murders by deputy?
The man who killed Arthur Mountjoy is (next to Cain alone) the most atrocious homicide that ever trod the miry ways of this earth.