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This quote is a continuation of the opening paragraph, and it too portrays Orczy as sympathetic toward the aristocracy. The guillotine is a swift killing machine—it takes only a split second for the weighted blade to decapitate the condemned—and for a “greater part of the day,” the guillotine is “busy at its ghastly work.” This implies that many aristocrats die each day, conceivably hundreds, and it speaks to the scale of the death that took place during the Reign of Terror. Orczy also implies that those killed at the guillotine, the “ancient names and blue blood” of France, are unfairly…