it was known directly, to the furthest confines of the crowd. defarge had but sprung over a railing and a table, and folded the miserable wretch in a deadly embrace madame defarge had but followed and turned her hand in one of the ropes with which he was tied the vengeance and jacques three were not yet up with them, and the men at the windows had not yet swooped into the hall, like birds of prey from their high perches when the cry seemed to go up, all over the city, "bring him out! bring him to the lamp!"