‘What about the savages?’ asked Conseil. ‘If monsieur pleases, they do not seem to me to be very ill-intentioned after all.’ ‘They are cannibals, my good fellow.’ ‘One can be a cannibal and a good man,’ replied Conseil, ‘just as one can be a glutton and honest. One does not exclude the other.’ ‘All right, Conseil, I concede that they are honest cannibals, and that they eat their prisoners honourably.
