The Marquis and Aristocratic Cruelty

From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Marquis St. Evremonde personifies the callous, ornamental cruelty of the ancien regime whose excesses make the Revolution inevitable.
Book 2, Chapter 7 (Monseigneur in Town)

The four-lackey chocolate ritual satirizing aristocratic absurdity.

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Book 2, Chapter 7 (Monseigneur in Town)

The Marquis's carriage runs over Gaspard's child; he tosses a coin in compensation.

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Book 2, Chapter 9 (The Gorgon's Head)

His assassination in bed with the note: 'Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.'

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