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Quotation from The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
“A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.”
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Ch. I (Project Gutenberg text)
The opening sentence, describing the Paris crowd at the West Barricade in September 1792.
Citation: "A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate." — Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Ch. I (Project Gutenberg text). (id the-scarlet-pimpernel-q1)
Portrait: Thescarletpimpernel1908, Baroness Emma Orczy, Public domain.
