She had heard all the successive snappings of the thread by which she hung suspended over the gulf; twenty times she had fancied that she saw it break, and at last she began to breathe again and to feel her foot on firm ground.
Elle avait entendu tous les craquements successifs du fil qui la tenait suspendue sur le gouffre, elle avait cru vingt fois le voir se briser, et commençait enfin à respirer et à se sentir le pied en terre ferme.