Horea Page #5

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in time.

The people were tired and hungry.

We'd been in that valley for two days

and people didn't know what to think,

because your letter was late.

Who knows what goes on at home? My

family's been gone for three weeks...

and Grofita Traicescu,

poor woman, they cut her head off...

You're full, aren't you? You drank, ate,

set fire! And now you're finished!

No, no, I was only babbling

away in my stupidity...

Are you their leader?

I came to hear your demands!

Your grievances!

Don't you know them?

Didn't you receive Horea's letter?

Tell the general anyway! So he may

hear them once more!

Tell him! Why shouldn't he hear them?

Why did you come in such numbers?

Why have you rebelled?

Let our brothers go free!

Let them go free!

Because our rights have been

trampled on!

And the truces we made, willingly or

not, were also broken.

There, officer, we talk of peace,

minding our business while

landowners eavesdrop.

How can there be peace?

With whom?

Between them and us?

I myself,

your shepherd,

came to teach you as a father,

and show you that

the merciful emperor has forgiven each

and every one.

Long live our emperor,

losefus Secundus!

For this mercy, clemency and wisdom to

be granted to you,

I bid you return home, my sons!

And come back here in eight days time

with your true leaders

whose orders you willingly obey,

and we will reach an accord!

You shouldn't have done that.

How can there be peace between those

who have and those who don't?

Between the powerful and the weak?

I knew the truth.

Only lies and deceit!

But, you see,

the people...

they thought that...

Don't blame the people!

Some missed their infants, others were

tired of sleeping in the cold,

others were frightened of their

own deeds!

But they didn't renounce us and they

didn't sell us out!

Who are you?

The eight days have passed!

We meet again!

Let the leaders come forth!

Are you the leaders?

The people's messengers!

You will come with me to Deva!

There you will be told...

you will hear the emperor's order!

The emperor's order or answer?

The order, Horea.

Bring three horses for these people!

Well, officer, we cannot travel that

far, alone,

together with foreign troops!

The emperor's troops, old man!

And if we all go, we cannot hold

responsibility for our people,

because they need food

and shelter!

Your leaders' conscience is not clear,

since you don't dare come alone and,

still, I am content by this!

This means you realize you've sinned

in your crimes!

No one among us has sinned, unless it

is sinful to seek justice!

It may be a sin to you, but not to us!

I demand that show here

the written orders

that you pretend... that you claim to

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