Well, this colossus shall fall crashing to the ground." From the back of the stage old Maury, who was playing the conspirator Jacquemont, delivered his reply: "He may crush us in his downfall." Suddenly cries at once plaintive and angry arose from the orchestra.
The author was exploding.

He was a man of seventy, brimming over with youth.
"What do I see there at the back of the stage?
It's not an actor, it's a fire-place.

We shall have to send for the bricklayers, the marble-workers, to move it.

Maury, do get a move on, confound you!" Maury shifted his position.
"He may crush us in his downfall.

I realize that it will not be your fault, General.