FIRST VAGABOND [seizing the other by the throat]. Do you want to dishonor the people, you pig?
SECOND VAGABOND [trying to break away]. What's matter? Are you crazy?
FIRST VAGABOND [shaking him]. Empty your pockets!
SECOND VAGABOND. But I—
FIRST VAGABOND [emptying his pockets]. Empty your pockets, you thief!
SECOND VAGABOND. Haven't we the right to rob the aristos any more, eh?
THE OTHERS. Hang him! Hang him!—Hang him on the sign-board!—A flogging is enough!—Ask pardon of the people!—Good!—Now, get out! [The Vagabond runs away.]
FIRST VAGABOND [setting to work]. He 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.
CAMILLE DESMOULINS [entering, in his usual absent-minded idle way]. A spanking will be enough for you. [They all laugh and set to work again.]
THE PEOPLE. Well, let's finish this.