half way down, or a little more, I shall be able to push it over."
"I must follow my thread," returned Irene, "whatever I do."
"What _do_ you mean?" exclaimed Curdie.
"You will see when you get out of here," answered the princess, and
then
she went on harder than ever.
But she was soon satisfied that what Curdie wanted done, and what the
thread wanted done, were one and the same thing. For she not only
saw
that by following the turns of the thread she had been clearing the face
of the slab, but that, a little more than half way down, the thread went
through the chink between the slab and the wall into the place where
Curdie was confined, so that she could not follow it any farther until
the slab was out of her way. As soon as she found this, she said in a
right joyous whisper--
"Now, Curdie! I think if you were to give a great push, the slab would
tumble over."
Madhuri Noah
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