The Master and Margarita
From the album “Watercolors by Gennady Kalinovskiy”
The public began to surround the villains, and then Koroviev intervened. “Citizens!” he cried in a thin, vibrating voice. “What is going on here? Eh? Allow me to ask you that! A poor man,” Koroviev let a tremor into his voice and pointed at Behemoth, who immediately put on a tearful face, “a poor man has been fixing primus stoves all day; he's hungry... and where is he supposed to get currency from?”
(A fake foreigner glances at Koroviev over his shoulder. And in the crowd, a teenage pickpocket is cleaning out a lady's handbag)