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66 [emptying his pockets your pockets, you thief!

't we the right to rob the aristos any more, eh?

him! Hang him!—Hang him on the sign-board!—A flogging is enough!—Ask pardon of the people!—Good!—Now, get outThe Vagabond runs away.]

[setting to work ought to have been hanged—for an example. There will be others like him. To be exposed to such nastiness—keep company with thieves! It's nasty.

[entering, in his usual absent-minded idle way spanking will be enough for youThey all laugh and set to work again.]

, let's finish this.

[looking at the house and the workers Lucile is there. I've just been to see her. The house was empty. They told me the family went out to dinner with relatives in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. They've been blockaded!—Well, I should think so! A splendid fortification! Scarp and counter-scarp, everything perfect. They are besieging the house. But, my friends, we have to demolish the Bastille, and not construct another like it. I don't know what your enemies will think, but it is in any case dangerous to your friends: I've just gotten my feet tangled up in your strings, and I almost stayed where I was.—This cask won't stand. You must put back the paving-blocks.

you work as well as you talk?

[gaily, as he takes up a block can