"You don't mean you've got the thread there?"
"Of course I do. I have told you so ten times already. I have
hardly--except when I was removing the stones--taken my finger off it.
There!" she added, guiding Curdie's hand to the thread, "you feel it
yourself--don't you?"
"I feel nothing at all," replied Curdie.
"Then what can be the matter with your finger? I feel it perfectly. To
be sure it is very thin, and in the sunlight looks just like the thread
of a spider, though there are many of them twisted together to make
it--but for all that I can't think why you shouldn't feel it as well as
I do."
Curdie was too polite to say he did not believe there was any thread
there at all. What he did say was--
"Well, I can make nothing of it."
"I can though, and you must be glad of that, for it will do for both of
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