us! They are murdering Danton! Paris, arise! Arise! [Two voices, at first, then all the People shout: "Tyranny!"]
Westermann. To arms! [The People repeat: "To arms!" A wild uproar indoors and out.]
Fouquier-Tinville [pale and frightened, to Billaud-Varenne and Vadier]. What shall we do? The people may attack.
Billaud-Varenne. Hanriot, clear the room.
Vadier. That would only incite them to battle, and who knows which would be the stronger?
Fouquier-Tinville [who has just looked out the window]. They are standing in crowds along the quay. They could force the doors.
Danton. People, we can do anything we will. We have triumphed over kings and over the armies of Europe. To arms! Down with the tyrants!
Vadier [to Fouquier-Tinville]. First of all, send these fellows back to prison, and get that spouter out of the way.
Danton [shaking his fist at Vadier]. Look at the cowardly cut-throats. Vadier, Vadier! Dog, come here! If this is to be a combat between cannibals, allow me at least to fight for my life!
Vadier [to Fouquier-Tinville]. Prosecutor, carry out the decree.
Fouquier-Tinville. The unheard-of indecency which the prisoners choose to employ as weapons of defense, the threats which they are so impudent as to hurl at the Tribunal, must put an end to the session. They force us to deal in like fashion under the grave
