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Rh do you want, little brat?

you the prisoners?

[laughing? No, we guard the prisoners.

are not so very much mistaken. They, too, are prisoners, and more to be pitied than the others. They have lost even the desire for liberty.

is this child?

good genius. She begged me to take her with me. I carried her on my back.

you out of your head to expose the child to such danger?

should she not share our risks? She is sure to die if we die. Don't pretend to pity her; your cannon have no such scruples.

[with his accustomed coldness and irony soldier! A petty officer who has deserted! So this is the envoy they send us? Capital! Well, shoot him. That will end his mission.

moment. It might be well to find out what they want.

have nothing to ask for.

don't parley with insurrectionists.

, let us see: it costs nothing.

. If we allowed them to discuss matters we might seem to be accepting them as equals.

shameless aberration led you to accept this mission?

idea of serving both my friends and you.