The Representatives interrupted him.

"No, no," they said, "the People and Representatives are all one! Speak--!" He declared that if he spoke it was in order to clear from all suspicion the honor of his brethren, the workmen of Paris; that he had heard some Representatives express doubt about them.
He asserted that this was unjust, that the workmen realized the whole crime of M.Bonaparte and the whole duty of the People, that they would not be deaf to the appeal of the Republican Representatives, and that this would be clearly shown.

He said all this, simply, with a sort of proud shyness and of honest bluntness.

He kept his word.

I found him the next day fighting on the Rambuteau barricade.
Mathieu (de la Drome) came in as the workman concluded.