THE MAN. Don't blame them. It's a fine thing to be able to speak. I tell you, there are words he uses that catch you way-down inside. They make the shivers run up your spine. They make you cry, they'd make you even kill your father; and they make you feel as strong as the whole world; make you feel like the good God Himself. Each man has his own work to do. They do the thinking for us; we've got to do our part for them. HULIN. What do you want to do? Look. [_He indicates the Bastille._] THE MAN. Lights on the left tower. They're not sleeping any more than we, up there. They're fixing up their cannon. HULIN. What do you intend to do with them? You can't resist them. THE MAN. That remains to be seen. HULIN. What do you mean? THE MAN. I mean, that remains to be seen. Two small make one great. HULIN. You are an optimist. THE MAN. It's my character. HULIN. It doesn't seem to have agreed with you, however. THE MAN [_good-naturedly_]. But I am naturally an optimist. Luck and I are not close relatives. As long as I can remember, I never got anything I wanted. [_Laughing._] Good Lord, I've had bad luck enough in my life! Everything isn't pleasure; life is a mixture. But I don't care: I'm always hoping, and sometimes I'm wrong. This time, Hulin, something good's come to me. The wind has shifted, and luck is with us. HULIN [_chaffingly_]. Luck? You'd better ask it to warm you up a bit first. THE MAN [_looking at his naked feet_]. I'd rather wear these shoes than the King's. I'd go this way to Vienna or Berlin, if necessary, to teach those kings a lesson. HULIN. Haven't you enough to do here? THE MAN. That won't last forever, When we're through here, and have cleaned up Paris and France, why not go the lot of us, arm-in-arm, soldiers, bourgeois, Tom, Dick, and Harry, and clean up Europe? We aren't selfish: we don't want all the fun for ourselves. You know, every time I learn something new, I want to tell it to others. Ever since these things began to stir in me--Liberty, and all this damned fine stuff--I feel I've just got to tell it to everybody, and spout it everywhere. God, if the others are like me, we'll do great things. I can already see the ground trembling under our feet, and Europe boiling like wine in a vat. People are falling on our necks. It's like little brooks rushing down to meet the river. We're a great river, washing everything clean. HULIN. Say, are you sick? THE MAN. I? I'm as well as a cabbage. HULIN. And yet you dream? THE MAN. All the time. It's good, too. If you dream enough, you end by getting something of what you're dreaming about. Hey, Hulin, what do you say? Won't it be a fine march? Aren't you coming with us? HULIN. As soon as you've taken Vienna and Berlin, I'll keep watch over them. THE MAN. Don't joke. Who knows? HULIN. Anything can happen-- THE MAN. Anything you wish for happens. HULIN. Meantime I'd like to know what's going to happen right now.