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Rh keep putting us off at the Hôtel de Ville. A few hundred bourgeois there take everything.

mind. We have knives, and sticks and stones. Anything is good to kill with.

've got a lot of tiles, broken bottles, and glass here in my room. Everything's near the window—dishes, furniture, everything. If they pass this way, I'll smash them!

[at her window kettle's been on the fire since dinner. The water's hot enough to boil paving-stones. Let them come! I'll boil them!

[with a gun, speaking to a Bourgeois me some money.

begging here.

'm not asking for bread, though I am starving. But I have a musket, and not a sou to buy powder with. Give me some money.

[a little drunk've got money, much as you likeHe pulls a handful of money from his pocket.]

did you get that?

took it from the Lazarists when they pillaged the convent.

[seizing the other by the throat you want to dishonor the people, you pig?

[trying to break away's matter? Are you crazy?

[shaking him your pockets!

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