Grasset. We need no more. The time has come for deeds. Anyone who sits within his four walls today is a knave. Every real man must go out into the streets.
Lebrêt. Bravo!—Bravo!
Grasset. In Toulon they have killed the mayor; in Brignolles they have sacked a dozen houses; but we in Paris are always sluggards and will put up with anything.
Host. You can scarcely say that now.
Lebrêt. (who has been drinking steadily). Up, you citizens, up!
Grasset. Up! Lock up your shop and come with us now.
Host. I'll come right enough, when the time comes.
Grasset. Ay, to be sure, when there is no more danger.
Host. My good friend, I love Liberty as well as you do, but my calling comes before everything.
Grasset. There is only one calling now for citizens of Paris—freeing their brothers.