I found a very small man of a melancholic, mild and tame aspect.

We were in front of the fire, on which he fixed his eyes without looking at me.

He talked a long time, in a didactic, monotonous tone of voice.

I felt ill at ease and sick at heart, and got away as soon as I could.

It was this little man, I afterwards learned, who hunted down the Girondists, and had them guillotined, and which he accomplished at the age of twenty."-- This man's name was Julien de la Drome.