Darkness
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He was seized with the fury of despair, and could only utter oaths:"My God! my God! my God!"Catherine, Lydie, and Mouquette, who had also rushed up, began to sob and shriek with terror in the midst of the fearful disorder, which was increased by the
darkness.
In silence they all looked at one another, and shuddered as they felt the coldness of death pass in the
darkness.
This procession beneath the earth, in the midst of deep darkness, seemed never to end through galleries which bifurcated and turned and unrolled.
The gloomy mass of buildings looked sombre beneath the growing
darkness.
The woman came out of her shop in astonishment, without understanding or being able to distinguish this band now lost in the
darkness.
He could only advance with precaution, on his knees or belly, feeling in the
darkness
before him.
There was black
darkness
on the earth while the tall branches showed against the pale sky, where a full moon coming above the horizon would soon extinguish the stars.
The moon, still beneath the horizon, only lit up the topmost branches, and the crowd, remaining in the darkness, stood above it at the top of the slope like a bar of shadow.
Then everything whirled around her in the darkness; a millstone turned in her head, her heart grew weak and left off beating, numbed in its turn by the immense weariness which was putting her limbs to sleep.
Gradually the whole mine was in terror, frightened shadows emerged from the galleries, lanterns danced and flew away in the
darkness.
She was suffocating, intoxicated with the darkness, exasperated with the walls which crushed against her flesh, and shuddering also with the dampness, her body perspiring beneath the great drops which fell on her.
And the cries ceased, and silence spread over the growing
darkness.
They had not been able to observe the scene, which was hidden from them by the wall, and they could not distinguish well in the growing
darkness.
The young ladies, who were very pale, asked no more questions, but with large eyes followed this red vision through the
darkness.
In spite of the torment of the darkness, he would come to hate the hour for returning to the settlement.
When the
darkness
began to stupefy him, weighing on his skull almost to madness, he would light up for a moment; then, as soon as he had chased away the nightmare, he extinguished the candle, miserly of this brightness which was as necessary to his life as bread.
He breathed deeply in the darkness, the joy of annihilation seized him, the hope that day would dawn on the extermination of the old world, with not a single fortune left standing, the scythe of equality levelling everything to the ground.
He would continue his walk, blinded by the darkness, visiting them one after the other, glad to discover some new disaster.
She pointed at Maheu in the darkness, with a vague, threatening gesture.
The mother furiously boxed their ears in the
darkness
at random.
Maheu, with burnt fingers, had dropped the match, and the
darkness
closed over the little corpse, which was still warm.
He went on in a voice of disgust, lamenting the imbecility of men, while the other two were disturbed by these somnambulistic confidences made in the
darkness.
He then sat down and waited for him in the darkness, near the body, with heart beating violently.
But there was a spluttering, the wick was going out, and everything fell back into
darkness.
These caresses increased his melancholy, his skin quivered beneath the confidences of the comrade who had grown old in darkness; and both of them, whenever they met and snorted together, seemed to be grieving, the old one that he could no longer remember, the young one that he could not forget.
At last the porters rang meat; he lifted his neck to see it go up, at first softly, then at once lost in the darkness, flown up for ever to the top of that black hole.
The latter slept with Jeanlin, at the risk of being arrested, seized by such horror at the idea of going back to the
darkness
of Réquillart that he would have preferred a prison.
They all be-came damp and then there was night, the bottomless depth of
darkness.
Feeling certain this time that he was not mistaken, he crossed the room, putting his hands out into the
darkness
to feel the opposite bed.
They dressed themselves in the darkness, with a thousand precautions.
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