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22 some of whom play about between the legs of the others.]

.Great plot discovered! Famine, famine is at hand! The murderers have come!

[calling to the news-criers].Here! Sst!

[anxiously, to a bourgeois, who is reading].Well?

.My good fellow, they are coming! They're coming! The Germans, the Swiss Guards! Paris is surrounded! They'll be here any minute!

.The King won't let them.

.The King? He's with them at the camp of Sablons, surrounded by Germans.

.The King is a Frenchman.

.The King, yes, but not the Queen. The Austrian woman hates us. Her brigand Marshal de Broglie has sworn to raze Paris to the ground. We are caught between the cannon of the Bastille and the troops of the Champ de Mars.

.They won't make a move. Monsieur Necker is at Versailles; he will take care of us.

.Yes, so long as he remains Minister, we must not lose our faith in him.

.But who says he still is? They've dismissed him.

[protesting].No, no, he's still Minister.—