The people will, therefore, remain long in their fatal error; political parties, which build their hopes on their passions, attempt to play upon their prejudices, rather than to dispel them.

I shall then have to deal with the powers that be--the people and the parties.

I see that a storm will burst on the head of the audacious person who dares to rise against an iniquity which is so firmly rooted in the country.
_Son._ You will have justice and truth on your side.
_Father._ And they will have force and calumny.

If I were only young! But age and suffering have exhausted my strength.
_Son._ Well, father, devote all that you have left to the service of the country.

Begin this work of emancipation, and leave to me for an inheritance the task of finishing it.
FOURTH TABLEAU.
_The Agitation._ _Jacques Bonhomme._ Parisians, let us demand the reform of the _octroi_; let it be put back to what it was.