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Rh got underground passages leading from the Bastille to Vincennes.

tales!

[rising'll have a look in the cellar, anyway. Are you coming with me, CamusetThey both go into a house.]

[laughing the cellar? Ha, ha! They're looking for a pretext to wet their whistles! Now, let's finish our work.

[looking behind him as he works God!

's wrong?

[looking toward the Bastille—that! Every time I look at that thing, it weighs down on my back—that Bastille! It catches in my throat.

looks under ground, and the other in the air. Don't look around; go on with your work.

no difference: I feel it. Like as if some one was standing behind me, with his fist raised ready to hit me.—Good God!

is right: we are watched by cannon. What good is all this going to do us? In a flash it could knock that all down like a house of cards.

, no.

[pointing toward the Bastille damned monster! When are we going to get rid of you!

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think so?—How?