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 1     XXIX|      one hundred feet of strong rope. It will make a very large
 2     XXIX|       procure a hundred feet of rope at this hour in Montaignac?
 3      XXX|       movement unwinding a long rope which had been twined around
 4      XXX|        dreaming. Evidently this rope was intended for him. It
 5      XXX|      his labor of unwinding the rope, and it was in the most
 6      XXX|      myself from this burden of rope, which I find extremely
 7      XXX|       going to do with all this rope?” inquired the new-comer.~ ~“
 8      XXX|         spot; he coiled all his rope about my body, and here
 9      XXX|        will fasten the shortest rope under your arms, Monsieur,
10      XXX|        will pass you the longer rope and the crowbar. Do not
11      XXX|   Escorval lifted his arms, the rope was fastened securely about
12      XXX|        the rocky precipice. The rope had parted.~ ~Had it broken
13      XXX|      into their hands —that the rope, in short, had been foully
14    XXXII|    built, they had discovered a rope dangling from the side of
15    XXXII|         the side of the rock. A rope! Then one of the condemned
16    XXXII|     used them. And yet only one rope could be found— the one
17    XXXII|      the platform, there was no rope.~ ~“This is most extraordinary!”
18    XXXII|    surprise.~ ~On examining the rope that remained—the one which
19    XXXII|       had the abbe measured the rope incorrectly?~ ~But Martial
20    XXXII|      had seemed to him that the rope was much longer, fully a
21   XXXIII|      connection with the broken rope and the blood-stains, made
22     XXXV|       The sudden parting of the rope hurled the brave corporal
23     XXXV|         was the breaking of the rope—a rope so large that one
24     XXXV|      the breaking of the rope—a rope so large that one would
25     XXXV|         scoundrels have cut the rope!” he exclaimed, with a frightful
26     XXXV|   appalled him.~ ~A part of the rope had fallen with the unfortunate
27     XXXV|     came to him in touching the rope which he had used in his
28     XXXV|       tower.~ ~“If you had that rope which hangs there useless,
29     XXXV|       knot these five pieces of rope together and attach them
30     XXXV| staircase is preferable to that rope dangling there. But no matter,
31     XXXV|      eighty feet of good strong rope. Then you will pass the
32     XXXV|          Then you will pass the rope about one of the bars that
33     XXXV|         that remain intact; the rope will thus be doubled; then
34     XXXV|        one of the knots and the rope is at your service. Do you
35     XXXV|      succeeded in obtaining the rope, and now he was certain
36     XXXV|       the scoundrel who cut the rope,” cried the corporal, in