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Suddenly she found herself in the dazzling sunlight, in the
midst
of a yelling crowd who were hooting her.
In less than five minutes the whole pit belonged to them; they swarmed at every storey in the
midst
of furious gestures and cries, carried away by their victory over this master who resisted.
Everything had disappeared in the
midst
of the vapour, the hot coal grew pale, and the women were nothing more than shadows with broken gestures.
Catherine, in her turn, had just appeared, dazzled by the bright sunlight, and frightened at falling into the
midst
of these savages.
They all dragged him on, forcing him to run in the
midst
of them.
There, also, the mob arrived in the
midst
of the ascent.
Suddenly he perceived that Chaval had gone off in the
midst
of the tumult.
At first he had been about to knock her down; then, after having wiped his face with the movement of a man who is recovering from intoxication, he said to Chaval, in the
midst
of deep silence:"She is right; that's enough.
Startled by these reproaches in the
midst
of his report, Dansaert denied, stammered excuses, while his great nose confessed the crime by its sudden redness.
The road seemed to be full of blood; men and women continued to rush by, bloody as butchers in the
midst
of slaughter.
With no anger now against these starving people, only enraged by the burning wound at his heart he continued to stammer in the
midst
of his tears:"Idiots!
In fact, the tumult began again, and Maigrat thought he heard his own name in the
midst
of the cries.
They were not left free, a shouting band followed them, while the crowd floated up to right and to left, without understanding, simply astonished at these dressed-up ladies lost in the
midst
of the battle.
In the
midst
of these furies Cécile was shaking with paralysed legs, stammering over and over again the same phrase:"Ladies!
The settlements looked deserted in the
midst
of the beetroot fields.
He lived there in the
midst
of abundance, finding gin there, the rest of the dried cod, and provisions of all sorts.
Everything held together, the plague blew from afar, one fall led to another; the industries tumbled each other over as they fell, in so rapid a series of catastrophes that the shocks echoed in the
midst
of the neighbouring cities, Lille, Douai, Valenciennes, where absconding bankers were bringing ruin on whole families.
At Deneulin's house, it was said, the wretchedness was pitiful, the wretchedness of the rich; the father ill in his powerlessness, aged by his anxiety over money, the daughters struggling in the
midst
of tradesmen, trying to save their shifts.
And at last he felt anxious on noticing Jeanlin, who was prowling about in the
midst
of the bushes, stupefied to see him up there.
There was a growing disaffection in the
midst
of his popularity, a gradual increase of the despairing among the faithful, and their number was certain, little by little, to grow.
Since the anarchists had triumphed in it, chasing out the earlier evolutionists, everything was breaking up; the original aim, the reform of the wage-system, was lost in the
midst
of the squabbling of sects; the scientific framework was disorganized by the hatred of discipline.
A quarter of an hour later, as the band of strikers, which had gradually enlarged, was becoming threatening, a large door opened on the ground floor and some men appeared drawing out the dead beast, a miserable mass of flesh still fastened in the rope net; they left it in the
midst
of the puddles of melting snow.
She had crammed herself in more closely, with Bébert, and was saying, in a high voice:"Oh, the white-livered pigs!"Catherine, a few paces off, was gazing and listening, stupefied by new scenes of violence, into the
midst
of which ill luck seemed to be always throwing her.
But his voice was lost in the
midst
of so frightful a tumult that he had to leave the window again, simply shrugging his shoulders.
In the
midst
of one group, at some distance, Zacharie and Philoméne were looking on as at a theatre so peacefully that they had brought their two children, Achille and Désirée.
And suddenly, in the
midst
of these furies, Catherine was observed with her fists in the air also brandishing half-bricks and throwing them with all the force of her little arms.
It was impossible to hear his words in the
midst
of the tumult; only his large grey moustache could be seen moving.
And Jeanlin, who just then ran up from Réquillart still half asleep, kicking about in the
midst
of the smoke, saw him embrace his little wife and die.
And in the
midst
of these human corpses, all small, poor and lean in their wretchedness, lay Trompette's carcass, a monstrous and pitiful mass of dead flesh.
Besides, he dreamed of a prison as of a refuge in the
midst
of the torment of his defeat; but they did not trouble him, and he dragged on his wretched hours, not knowing how to weary out his body.
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