What has he done with the funds of the commissariat?
And how about the automatic guns? I shall attack him before the assembly. We shall see!
Look how he plumes himself! See how he struts among those nanny-goats!
Someone (of his following, in a low voice): Do you know the story about him and the wife of the High Prefect? He had set up an establishment with the wife of the Paymaster-General,
And the other trollop came to join them. Such scenes as they had!
A Citizen (loudly to the tribune of the people): Sir, you have saved the State!
(He presses his hand.
The Tribune of the People: Don't say that! I love my country, Sir! (Very loudly) I did not despair of my country!
The people did it all.
The Citizen: All the same I say it was you! You did the organizing!