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He thought for a moment that he was about to fall down the whole five hundred and eighty
metres
of the mine, but at last he felt a rung, and descended gently.
Ladders, seven
metres
in length, followed one another, some still firm, others shaky, yielding and almost broken; the steps were narrow and green, so rotten that one seemed to walk in moss; and as one went down the heat grew suffocating, :he heat of an oven proceeding from the air-shaft which was, fortunately, not very active now the strike was on, or when the furnace devoured its five thousand kilograms of coal a day, one could not have risked oneself here without scorching one's hair.
Thirty ladders, that made about two hundred and ten
metres.
Mouquet, who was also a good player, sent off the ball with so vigorous arm that his single stroke brought the ball a hundred and fifty
metres
behind.
Almost at the same minute Zacharie, Mouquet, and the two others, with their last blow at crosse, drove the ball within a few
metres
of the glade.
They had not been contented by enlarging the shaft one metre and a half, and deepening it to seven hundred and eight metres, they had equipped it afresh with a new engine, new cages, entirely new material, all set up according to the latest scientific improvements; and even a certain seeking for elegance was visible in the constructions, a screening-shed with carved frieze, a steeple adorned with a clock, a receiving-room and an engine-room both rounded into an apse like a Renaissance chapel, and surmounted by a chimney with a mosaic spiral made of black bricks and red bricks.
They were seven hundred and eight
metres
to the north in the first passage of the Désirée seam, which was at a distance of three kilometres from the pit-eye.
At the relay, eighty
metres
from the cutting, another putter took the tram and pushed it eighty
metres
farther to the upbrow, so that the receiver could forward it with the others which came down from the upper galleries.
It was along this wall, for a length of more than a hundred metres, that the haulage was carried on, in a temperature of sixty degrees.
The water that filtered from the shaft was falling in great drops, and the floor of the pit-eye, shaken by this tramping, was trembling over the sump, the muddy cesspool ten
metres
deep.
From the bottom to daylight there were a hundred and two ladders, about seven
metres
in length, each placed on a narrow landing which occupied the breadth of the passage and in which a square hole scarcely allowed the shoulders to pass.
It was like a flat chimney, seven hundred
metres
in height, between the wall of the shaft and the brattice of the winding-cage, a damp pipe, black and endless, in which the ladders were placed one above the other, almost straight, in regular stages.
This one, Crévecoeur, was only five hundred
metres
away from Madeleine.
Négrel had carried out his idea, walking the hundred
metres
which separated them from the house, and knocking at the little door which led to the garden, near the common.
Other obstacles also protected him, the suffocating heat of the passage, a hundred and twenty
metres
of dangerous descent, then the painful gliding on all fours for a quarter of a league between the narrowed walls of the gallery before discovering the brigand's cave full of plunder.
Above the north gallery of Mirou the ground sank in to such an extent, that the Joiselle road, for the distance of a hundred metres, had been swallowed up as though by the shock of an earthquake; and the Company, disturbed at the rumours raised by these accidents, paid the owners for their vanished fields without bargaining.
So he led her back to her lover's, with sunken head, and made no protest when she stopped him on the main road, at the corner of the Yards, twenty
metres
from the Estaminet Piquette, saying:"Don't come any farther.
Silently they hastened on, hindered by the swinging of the corpse, and obliged to place it on the ground every hundred
metres.
Afterwards, at every ladder, he had to perform the same manoeuvre over again, going down first, then receiving the body in his arms; and he had thus, down thirty ladders, two hundred and ten metres, to feel it constantly falling over him.
Had the weight of the soil against the timber which formed the internal skirt of scaffolding to the shaft so pushed it in that the winding-cages rubbed as they went down for a length of over fifty
metres?
He knew that the cage jarred at three hundred and seventy-four
metres
against the fifth row of the lower tubbing.
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 was a foolhardy task, during which he frequently only just escaped from falling headlong down the hundred and eighty
metres
which separated him from the bottom.
Landslips were threatening everywhere; the passages had suffered to such an extent that the timbering had to be repaired along a length of several hundred
metres.
But he trembled especially when he noticed that the sump beneath him, that pit ten
metres
deep.
It was a piece of tubbing which had got loose and was falling a hundred and eighty
metres
down, rebounding against the walls.
A third, who had seized the cage, fell back fifty
metres
up and disappeared in the sump.
But at three hundred metres, when he reached the lower tubbing, the lamp was extinguished, as he expected, for a jet had filled the tub.
He shouted and shook the cord furiously; and it was, indeed, time, for he perceived that the uppertubbing, a hundred
metres
higher, was in its turn beginning to move.
He refused to talk in the presence of some captains who were listening, and led his uncle ten
metres
away, and not thinking this far enough, drew still farther back; then, in a low whisper, he at last told of the outrage, the torn and sawn planks, the pit bleeding at the neck and groaning.
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