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Rh devil are you doing there? What's all this talking! You're disturbing the peace! Make way, there! Go back home!

's that damned Bourgeois Guard again!—Down with them!—Disturb the peace? That's good!—We're defending Paris!

's not your affair.

[indignantly our affair?

[with vehemence's not your affair. That's our business, and ours alone. We are the Permanent Committee on defense. Damn you, get out of here!

[coming close to him, it's Gonchon!

[stumbling thousand devils! For God's sake, what sons of dogs have put up that thing, torn up the street, and stopped traffic! Knock that down, do you hear!

[furiously down our barricade? Try it!

to me, Captain, and attend to what I say. We'll agree to go away and not question the Committee's orders, even though they're given by fools. There must be discipline in war-time; we're willing to submit, but if you touch one stone of our fortification, we'll smash the faces of you and the rest of your monkeys.

down our barricade?

said anything about tearing it down? Are we masons? We have something better to do. Make way now!