counticide

Updated: January 14, 2026

Parbleu, if Monsieur de Viel-Castel should find himself among a society of French duchesses, and they should tear his eyes out, and send the fashionable Orpheus floating by the Seine, his slaughter might almost be considered as justifiable COUNTICIDE.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh