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'The indefiniteness consists in your imagining that I am free.''You may be perfectly at rest on that matter!' she rejoined, and turning away she began to drink her coffee.
When she poured out her usual dose of opium and thought that she need only drink the whole phial in order to die, it seemed to her so easy and simple that she again began thinking with pleasure of how he would suffer, repent, and love her memory when it was too late.
All this put together produced on Katavasov a disagreeable impression, and when the Volunteers got out at a station to have a drink he wished to verify this unfavourable impression by a talk with somebody.
When their mother caught them at this pursuit, she began in Levin's presence to impress on them how much trouble what they were wasting had cost grown-up people, that that trouble had been taken for them, that if they broke cups they would not have anything to drink tea out of, and if they spilt milk they would not have anything to eat and would die of hunger.
The cages rose and sank with the gliding movement of a nocturnal beast, always engulfing men, whom the throat of the hole seemed to drink.
"I ought to say that I had been drinking," he went on, and when I drink I get mad--I could devour myself, and I could devour other people.
"You mustn't drink," she said, seriously.
For a moment he remained with his looks buried in the darkness of the mine; and at that depth, beneath the weight and suffocation of the earth, he saw his childhood again, his mother still beautiful and strong, forsaken by his father, then taken up again after having married another man, living with the two men who ruined her, rolling with them in the gutter in drink and ordure.
"Will you drink?" asked Catherine, uncorking her tin.
However, she insisted good-naturedly, and said at last:"Well, I will drink before you since you are so polite.
Thus, instead of putting aside a few sous like our peasants, miners drink, get into debt, and end by not having enough to support their families."
Now, I have been lucky; my husband doesn't drink.
Pierronne was about to drink her coffee alone, all her people being at the pit.
And then the husband had taken to drink, beat his wife, and ran after the singers at the Montsou caféconcerts.
He spoke to them all familiarly, and replied without stopping:"Just leave me alone; you drink too much coffee."
All of them had washed down their soup with a big bumper of fresh water, the good, clear drink of the fortnight's end.
"Come in and have a drink.
But Maheu refused to drink a second glass; he would see later on, the day was not yet done.
But hardly had they entered Piquette's to drink a glass, when the nail-maker reappeared, making fun of them and coming close up to them with an air of provocation.
As for me, you know I would give up everything for the sake of justice, both drink and girls.
At long intervals Zacharie came in for a moment; but politics bored him, he preferred to go off and drink a glass at the Avantage.
In his fat, good-humoured nature, nourished on beer, a secret jealousy was forming, increased by the desertion of his bar, into which the workmen from the Voreux now came more rarely to drink and to listen; and he thus sometimes even began to defend the Company, forgetting the rancour of an old miner who had been turned off.
He would drink nothing, in spite of the polite insistence of Madame Rasseneur, who sold her beer as though she made a present of it.
Madame Hennebeau said to her husband, lowering her voice:"I hope you will drink your coffee."
Suddenly M. Hennebeau left his chair, saying the coffee was too hot and he would drink it afterwards.
Seated at tables, and spending their last two sous on drink, they grinned and bantered their mates, the serious ones, who had come to make fools of themselves.
"Come and help me then, we must give her something to drink."
"Well, won't you come in and drink a little glass?" asked Mouquette merrily.
Zacharie, Mouquet, and the two others were getting over the kilometres, with no other rest than the time for a drink at all the inns which they had fixed on as their goals.
Among the men, Maheu was won over and shouted with anger, between Pierron who was trembling and Levaque who was talking too much; while the chaffers, Zacharie and Mouquet, though trying to make fun of things, were feeling uncomfortable and were surprised that their mate could talk on so long without having a drink.
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