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Suddenly the silken cord on which the young man had sped so daringly into the sky, gave a quick jerk which almost toppled over the post to which it was tied, and there, before the very eyes of the people, it fell from the lofty height, a silken pile on the ground in front of them.
Lucy screwed up her mouth and said: "Perhaps I spoke hastily."
Mr Dedalus screwed his glass into his eye and stared hard at both his sons.
It was so much, however, to her who received it, that she turned from Defarge to his wife, and kissed one of the hands that knitted.
