Popular Applause

Next of the anti-revolutionary stereotypes is the Crowd. Lewis(1) later editorializes:
"[Ambrosio] knew not how uncertain is the air of popular applause, and that a moment suffices to make him to day the detestation of the world, who yesterday was its Idol"

Whitlark, James
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(1) Matthew Lewis, The Monk: A Romance, edited with Introduction by Howard Anderson (London: Oxford University Press, 1973)