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Rh and call out the citizensTo the Electors and Deputies., citizens, guard the Hôtel de Ville, and see that no treachery is done. Take charge of the bourgeois! Now, we'll gag the beast''Points to the Bastille. Little  has meanwhile come from the house with her mother, and stands in the doorway. She then stands on a post to see better, and looks at  in silent and passionate admiration.  looks at her and smiles.'', little one, do you want to come, too? Consumed with envy, aren't youShe holds out her trembling arms to him, nodding, but says nothing. comeHe takes her on his shoulder.]

're mad! Put her down! You're not going to take her into the fight?

is sending us into the fight! She is our standard-bearer!

't take her from me!

come, too, mother! No one should stay at home today. The snail must come forth from its shell. The whole city is freed from prison today. We leave nothing behind. This isn't an army at war, it is an invasion.

, it is. If we must die, it's better to die all together.

? Nonsense. You don't die when you expect deathThe sky begins to brighten behind the houses and the solid mass of the Bastille. last! Day is breaking. The new day, the dawn of Liberty!

[who, seated on  shoulders, has been all smiles, excited and quiet, and with a finger to her