. Ninety-three . k-l)rokers and the monopolists—there is the danger. To have nailed theblack flag to the Hôtel de \ille—a fine advance! You arrest BaronTrenck ; that is not sufficient. I want this old prison intriguers neckAVTung. You believe that you have got out of the difficulty because thePresident of the Convention jiuts a civic crown on the head of Laber-tèche, who received forty-one sabre cuts at Jemmapes, and of whom 156 2^I¥E T Y - TE BEE. liiéuior makes himself the eleiihuiit (hiver? Comedies and juggling!Ah, yoii will not look at Paris ! You seek the danger at a distancewhen it is c
. Ninety-three . k-l)rokers and the monopolists—there is the danger. To have nailed theblack flag to the Hôtel de \ille—a fine advance! You arrest BaronTrenck ; that is not sufficient. I want this old prison intriguers neckAVTung. You believe that you have got out of the difficulty because thePresident of the Convention jiuts a civic crown on the head of Laber-tèche, who received forty-one sabre cuts at Jemmapes, and of whom 156 2^I¥E T Y - TE BEE. liiéuior makes himself the eleiihuiit (hiver? Comedies and juggling!Ah, yoii will not look at Paris ! You seek the danger at a distancewhen it is close at hand. What is the use of your police, Eobespierre ?For you have your spies—Pay an at the Commune—Cofiinhal at theEevolutionary Tribunal—David at the Committee of General Security—Couthon at the Connnittee of Public Safety. You see that I know allabout it. Aery well, learn this : the danger is over jonr heads ; thedanger is nn<ler your feet ; conspiracies—c-onspiracies—conspiracies !. The people in the streets read tlie newspapers to one another andexchange nods; six thousand nicu, without civii- papers, returned emi-grants. Muscadins andMathevons, are liiddcn in (-(^lars and garrets andthe wooden galleries of the Palais Eoyal. People stand in a row atthe bakersshops ; the women stand in the doorways and clasp tlieirliands, crying, When sliall we have peace ? You may shut yourselvesup as close as you please in the hall of the Executive Coimcil, in orderto be alone ; every wor-d you speak is known, and as a proof, Eol)es-liierrc, here are the words you spoke last night to Saint-Just—Barba-roux ]>egins to show a fat [launch; it will be a trouble to him in his NINETY-THREE. 157 flight. Yes; the danger is everywhere, and above all in the centre,lu Paris the Retrogrades plot, while patrols go barefooted ; the aris-tocrats arrested on the Itth of March are already set at liberty; thefancy horses which onght to be harnessed to the frontier-cannon spa
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