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Rh see! My colleagues will be allowed to murder me, and I shall not be permitted to bring confusion on my murderers!

dare insult the national representatives!

we here as a mere matter of form? Do you want us to remain mute?

, you hear! They are afraid of the truth! They fear the testimony that will confound them!

the court, and not the people.

people are our sole judges; you are nothing without them.

ask the Convention!

want to gag us, but you cannot. My voice will stir Paris to its very entrails. Light! Light!

!

witnessesThe Judges become alarmed.]

is time to cease this scandalous discussion; I shall write to the Convention of your request: we will obey their command''The People applaud. ' and ' consult together, write the request, and read in an undertone what they have written.'']

[exultant have won our case!

'll confound the blackguards. You'll see them fall into their own vileness head-first. If the French people are what they ought to be, I shall be obliged to ask their pardon.