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But the croere not to be lightly diverted With a persistence brutal

and unquestioning they continued to howl, "Open! Open!" while the man

who had broken thethe moment before, Jehan, the cripple with the

hideous face, seized the lead-work, and tore away a great piece of it

Then, laying hold of a bar, he tried to drag it out, setting one foot

against the wall below Tavannes sahat he did, and his frame seemed

to dilate with the fury and violence of his character

"Dogs!" he shouted, " you through the streets with stirrup-leathers? I am Tavannes;

beware of me! I have claws and teeth and I bite!" he continued, the

scorn in his words exceeding even the rage of the crowd, at which he

flung them "Kill where you please, rob where you please, but not where

I a you by the heels on Montfaucon, man by man! I will

flay your backs Go! Go! I am Tavannes!"

But the mob, cowed for a ance and recklessness, showed at this that their patience was

exhausted With a yell which drowned his tones they swayed forward; a

dozen thundered on the door, crying, "In the King's name!" As many more