Such was the man who seemed to have no vice, till circumstance, that hotbed, brought forth the two which, in ordinary times, lie ever the deepest and most latent in a man's heart,--Cowardice and Envy.

To one of these sources is to be traced every murder that master-fiend committed.

His cowardice was of a peculiar and strange sort; for it was accompanied with the most unscrupulous and determined WILL,--a will that Napoleon reverenced; a will of iron, and yet nerves of aspen.

Mentally, he was a hero,--physically, a dastard.

When the veriest shadow of danger threatened his person, the frame cowered, but the will swept the danger to the slaughter-house.