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"Down with him! down with him! he is an Orsinist down with him!" cried at least ten of the throng: but no hand was raised against the giant. "He speaks the truth," said a second voice, firmly. "Ay, that doth he," said a third, knitting his brows, and unsheathing his knife, "and we will abide by it. The Orsini are tyrants and the Colonnas are, at the best, as bad."
"Betters!" gulped out the poor butcher; "a Roman has no betters; and if I had not lost two brothers by San Lorenzo, I would " "The dog is mutinous," said one of the followers of the Orsini, succeeding the German who had passed on, "and talks of San Lorenzo!" "Oh!" said another Orsinist, who rode abreast, "I remember him of old. He was one of Rienzi's gang."
"Was he?" said the other, sternly; "then we cannot begin salutary examples too soon;" and, offended at something swaggering and insolent in the butcher's look, the Orsinist coolly thrust him through the heart with his pike, and rode on over his body. "Shame! Shame!" "Murder! Murder!" cried the crowd: and they began to press, in the passion of the moment, round the fierce guards.
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