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 | He was up in his iron cage for several days. The villagers looked at him secretly, for they were all afraid, but they kept looking. They would whisper at the fountain that although the man had been sentenced to death, he would not be killed. They would say that a petition had been presented in Paris so he wouldn't be killed. | |
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| These whispers are true.Know that a petition was presented to the king and queen. Everyone here, except you, saw the king take it while he was in his carriage in the street, sitting next to the queen. It was Defarge, this man here, who, risking his life, ran out in front of the horses with the petition in his hand. | |
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| Jacques five continues his story, after listening to the rest of the Jacques and their input. |
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| The name of that prisoner was Damiens. It was all done in broad daylight, publicly, in the streets of Paris. Nothing was more noticed in the large crowd that saw it than the group of upper-class ladies who were eager and excited to see the whole thing through to the very end. | |
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| Well, the day came of his execution. On the top of the gallows they had attached the knife that killed the marquis. The blade was pointing up toward the air. They hanged him there forty feet in the air, and his body is still hanging, poisoning the water of the fountain. | |
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| The first four Jacques continue to look at each other as Jacques five talks. Their anger steadily increases. |
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| It’s terrible, messieurs. How can women and children fetch water from the fountain? Who can gather and gossip there now that a man has been killed there? That’s all, messieurs. I left at sunset as I had been told to do. | |
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| Good! You have done the right thing and have told your story well. Will you wait for us a little while outside? | |
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