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"I have observed his face!" repeated madame, contemptuously and

angrily. "Yes. I have observed his face. I have observed his face

to be not the face of a true friend of the Republic. Let him take

care of his face!"

"And you have observed, my wife," said Defarge, in a deprecatory

manner, "the anguish of his daughter, which must be a dreadful

anguish to him!"

"I have observed his daughter," repeated madame; "yes, I have

observed his daughter, more times than one. I have observed her

to-day, and I have observed her other days. I have observed her

in the court, and I have observed her in the street by the

prison. Let me but lift my finger--!" She seemed to raise it (the

listener's eyes were always on his paper), and to let it fall

with a rattle on the ledge before her, as if the axe had dropped.

"The citizeness is superb!" croaked the Juryman.

"She is an Angel!" said The Vengeance, and embraced her.