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Bébert and Lydie had fallen one on top of the other at the first three shots, the little girl struck in the face, the boy wounded beneath the left shoulder.
The wounded were howling, the dead were growing cold. in twisted postures, muddy with the liquid mud of the thaw, here and there forming puddles among the inky patches of coal which reappeared beneath the tattered snow.
When he raised his head there were threatening men there, women drawing aside the curtains from their windows; and beneath this still silent accusation and the restrained anger of these eyes, enlarged by hunger and tears, he became awkward and could scarcely walk straight.
And beneath his anger at seeing these brutes spoil their own cause, there was despair at his own fall and the tragic end of his ambition.
He remembered hearing beneath the beeches three thousand hearts beating to the echo of his own.
Beneath the pale starlight, the two solitary walkers only recognized each other when they were face to face.
It had been necessary in sinking the Voreux to establish two tubbings: that of the upper level, in the shifting sands and white clays bordering the chalky stratum, and fissured in every part, swollen with water like a sponge; then that of the lower level, immediately above the coal stratum, in a yellow sand as fine as flour, flowing with liquid fluidity; it was here that the Torrent was to be found, that subterranean sea so dreaded in the coal pits of the Nord, a sea with its storms and its shipwrecks, an unknown and unfathomable sea, rolling its dark floods more than three hundred metres beneath the daylight.
It only concerned the gentleman if he liked the leavings; and beneath the exhibition of this contempt he was again seized by a tremor of jealousy, and his eyes flamed.
They contented themselves with casting a sidelong look at the new-comers; then, dejected and without anger, they again stared fixedly at the mouth of the shaft, with their lamps in their hands, shivering beneath their thin jackets, in the constant draughts of this large room.
It was now descending beneath so violent a rain, like a storm, that the workmen anxiously listened to the pouring.
The torrent was roaring over their heads, and they at last reached the pit-eye beneath a veritable waterspout.
Gangs of ten men were therefore formed below, each beneath the control of a captain.
But he trembled especially when he noticed that the sump beneath him, that pit ten metres deep.
He had had the cage unfastened, giving orders to replace it at the end of the cable by a tub; and as he feared that the water would extinguish his lamp, he had another fastened beneath the tub, which would protect it.
No doubt the stoves of the boilers were scarcely extinguished, for the tall brick chimney gave out a light smoke beneath the dark clouds; while the weathercock on the steeple creaked in the wind with a short, shrill cry, the only melancholy voice of these vast buildings which were about to die.
Beneath the enormous pressure the structures broke and jarred each other so powerfully that sparks leapt out.
Beneath the piled-up beams of the sifting-shed, fractured tipping cradles could be made out with broken and twisted hoppers.
How far ought they to flee to reach shelter at the end of this abominable day, beneath this leaden cloud which also seemed about to crush the earth?
Soon the crater was filled and a lake of muddy water occupied the place where once stood the Voreux, like one of those lakes beneath which sleep accursed towns.
He had recognized Maheude and Zacharie sobbing before this downfall, the weight of which was so heavy on the heads of the wretches who were in agony beneath.
He will be there, without doubt, when the middle class in agony shall hear the pavement of the streets bursting up beneath their feet.
But if the manager remained safe, the Company was tottering beneath the terrible blow.
He thought of the little soldier lying beneath the rocks, fearing lest they should trouble his sound sleep; but that side of the mine was beneath the water, and, besides, their investigations were directed more to the left, in the west gallery.
Every heart in the district was beating down there beneath the earth.
Beneath the tender azure of this beautiful day there lay a sewer, the ruins of a town drowned and melted in mud.
But the mother touched them, that poor woman who had just lost her son after having lost her husband, and whose daughter was perhaps a corpse beneath the earth; to say nothing of an invalid grandfather, a child who was lame as the result of a landslip, and a little girl who died of starvation during the strike.
Two parcels, carefully wrapped up, had been placed beneath a seat of the carriage.
The old man did not stir nor wink his eyelids beneath the sudden light from the door; he seemed imbecile, as though he had not seen all these people come in.
He desired to live, his beast's memory awoke; the longing to breathe once more the air of the plains drove him straight onwards to the discovery of that hole, the exit beneath the warm sun into light.
Three times over he thought that she was slipping from him and falling back into that deep sea of which the tide was roaring beneath them.
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