"Yes, I see that."

"Well that proves that we are considerate and kind."

"You are pleased to be facetious."

"Far from it, Monsieur, I am serious. I have to repeat that it proves that we are considerate and kind."

"Does it?"

"Yes. How do you English sacrifice?"

"We don't sacrifice at all," I replied.

"Pardon, Monsieur, you hang. And how do you hang? With the absence of gentleness the most great. You bind hand and foot; you do not study the comfort of the man to be put to death."

"No, not much."

"Ah! you acknowledge it. Yes, yes; only when you have provided chairs for your people to be sacrificed will you have arrived to our high perception