Once again, your papers!" "I must first explain to you--" "No! No explanation--your papers!--Or would you like me to have you arrested as a vagabond ?" "Me---arrested!" "I tell you that, if you refuse to show me your papers, it will be as if you had none.

Now, those people who have no papers we take into custody till the authorities can dispose of them.

Let me see your papers, and make haste!--I am in a hurry to get home." Dagobert's position was the more distressing, as for a moment he had indulged in sanguine hope.

The last blow was now added to all the veteran had suffered since the commencement of this scene, which was a cruel as well as dangerous trial, for a man of his character--upright, but obstinate--faithful, but rough and absolute--a man who, for a long time a soldier, and a victorious one, had acquired a certain despotic mariner of treating with civilians.
At these words--"your papers," Dagobert became very pale; but he tried to conceal his anguish beneath an air of assurance, which he thought best calculated to gain the magistrate's good opinion.

"I will tell you all about it, Mr.Burgomaster," said he.