magistrate . . . benevolent man
As a magistrate, Mr. Kirwin, who treats all people with equity and
compassion, contrasts with the Geneva
judges who condemned Justine Moritz
to death (1.7.5) as well as the rigged
Paris tribunal that pronounced a like
sentence on Safie's father (2.6.1). There is likewise to be observed
here a curious symmetry, since at the other end of Victor's trip to the
British Isles is another magistrate who, in effect, authorized it,
Alphonse Frankenstein.
