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But her good nature did not disarm her mother, who replied:"Instead of bringing us sweets, you would have done better to stay and earn bread for us."

He thought of the settlement without bread, these women and little ones who would not eat that evening, all this struggling race with empty bellies.

His ill-digested reading came back to him, examples of nations who had burnt their towns to arrest the enemy, vague histories of mothers who had saved their children from slavery by crushing their heads against the pavement, of men who had died of want rather than eat the bread of tyrants.

Four thousand francs sent by the International from London had scarcely supplied bread for three days, and then nothing had come.

The sight of the settlement and of these poor people without bread or fire overcame him.

The gin revived the old woman, who without speaking bit greedily into the bread.

This bread, which she had given so willingly, moved him.

No, not a single potato, not a single crumb of bread!

With Mouquette also bread was wanting; it was her dinner which she had forced him to take in this cloth, kissing him with all her heart.

And they were constantly enlarging their conquests, scuffling among the piles of bricks until blood came, running about the fields and eating without bread all sorts of milky herbs, searching the banks of the canals to take fish from the mud and swallow them raw and pushing still farther, they travelled for kilometres as far as the thickets of Vandame, under which they gorged themselves with strawberries in the spring, with nuts and bilberries in summer.

In a corner on the ground a pile of hay made a soft couch; on some old planks, placed like a table, there were bread, potatoes, and bottles of gin already opened; it was a real brigand's cavern, with booty piled up for weeks, even useless booty like soap and blacking, stolen for the pleasure of stealing.

She was overcome by fear, the fear of a brothel at Marchiennes, which was the end of putter-girls without bread and without lodging.

And in this growing ferocity, in this old need of revenge which was turning every head with madness, the choked cries went on, death to traitors, hatred against ill-paid work, the roaring of bellies after bread.

They found no bread there; there were only two pieces of raw flesh and a sack of potatoes.

bread!"Chapter 5M. HENNEBEAU had placed himself in front of his study window to watch the departure of the carriage which was taking away his wife to lunch at Marchiennes.

bread!"Lucie and Jeanne pressed themselves against Madame Hennebeau, who was almost fainting; while Négrel placed himself before them as though to protect them by his body.

bread!"M. Hennebeau was standing at the window when Hippolyte came in to close the shutters, for fear the windows should be broken by stones.

bread!""Idiots!" said M. Hennebeau between his clenched teeth.

bread!""Idiots!" repeated M. Hennebeau; "am I happy?"

Things were not all for the best because one had bread.

Now you may ask for bread, they'll give you lead."

She saw the vol-au-vent blockaded behind a bush, besieged, going to swell the bellies of the three thousand wretches who were asking for bread.

I advise you to go back at once, for there they are again demanding bread.

"To Maigrat's house, by God! there's bread in there!

bread!" broke out anew.

They would find bread behind that door.

This earth heaped in his mouth was the bread he had refused to give.

And henceforth he would eat of no other bread.

It was in vain that he was able to sleep in safety, that he was warm and provided with bread, the night had never weighed so heavily on his brain.

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