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Go and lie down!''Let them out with the flock,' he said, turning to the herdsman who was waiting for orders about some young sheep.
When everything was in order and the vehicles had been brought back to the road, Levin gave orders for lunch to be served.
'How dare he say I gave orders to steal his trousers?
'Krasavchik' (one of the pair of carriage horses brought from the country) 'has been re-shod but still goes lame,' said he.'What are your orders?'On first coming to Moscow Levin had taken an interest in the horses they brought from the country.
And what on earth am I to say to them?'As he entered the first drawing-room he met in the doorway the Countess Bol, who with an anxious and stern expression was giving orders to a servant.
Kitty was walking up and down and knitting, rapidly throwing the thread over the needle and giving orders.
CHAPTER XIVTHE DOCTOR WAS NOT YET UP, and his footman said he had gone to bed late and given orders that he was not to be called, but the footman added that he would be up soon.
Then, with a large gesture he indicated the north half of the horizon: the Sonneville workshops had not received two-thirds of their usual orders; only two of the three blast furnaces of the Marchiennes Forges were alight; finally, at the Gagebois glass works a strike was threatening, for there was talk of a reduction of wages.
One blow to stop, two to go down, three to go up; it was unceasing, like blows of a club dominating the tumult, accompanied by the clear sound of the bell; while the lander, directing the work, increased the noise still more by shouting orders to the engine-man through a trumpet.
But the engine, with its great steel limbs starred with copper shining up above in the shade, no longer attracted his attention, nor the cables which flew by with the black and silent motion of a nocturnal bird, nor the cages rising and plunging unceasingly in the midst of the noise of signals, of shouted orders, of trains shaking the metal floor.
Six o'clock struck, twilight was already coming on, and they would do well to remove the corpse also; the engineer gave orders to harness the van and to bring a stretcher.
Up to nine o'clock he dictated dispatches, telegraphing in all directions, to the prefect of Lille, to the directors of the Company, warning the authorities and asking for orders.
Behind those thin leaves he felt Paris and the directors' orders, which would decide the strike.
I receive my orders, and my only duty is to see that they are executed.
He usually took his orders from the Company; perhaps the latter wished to bring the matter to an end by starving the settlements.
Before three years are past, the International, under his orders, will crush the old world."
They wished to retain Pluchart, but, without stopping, he declared that he must set out at once for Joiselle, where Legoujeux was awaiting orders.
"It's a present from Lydie," replied Jeanlin, who neglected to add that Lydie had stolen it, by his orders, from a huckster at Montsou, stationed before the Tete-Coupée Bar.
Stoppage of work would simply mean death, for he had no stock, and he must fulfil orders.
He cried his orders while the crowd moved on, and organized the march.
But I only know my orders.
At his orders some hundred strikers ran up, and the porters only had time to escape.
Towards nine o'clock, although he had received orders to send every one away, Hippolyte took the liberty of announcing Dansaert, who was bringing news.
He had just asked them for orders in the case of a skirmish.
or would it be better to wait patiently, and not to act until he had received the directors' orders?
He recognized it; it was struck, by his orders, when the postman arrived.
The stones, in spite of his orders, went on hailing, and he was astonished and terrified by these brutes he had unmuzzled, who were so slow to move and then so terrible, so ferociously tenacious in their rage.
At every crisis of his existence, he took refuge in the strict execution of the orders he had received; in the military discipline in which he lived he found his small share of happiness.
To the other causes of suffering--the stoppage of orders from America, and the engorgement of invested capital in excessive production--was now added the unforeseen lack of coal for the few furnaces which were still kept up; and that was the supreme agony, this engine bread which the pits no longer furnished.
Their hearts rose in revolt, and they had at last embraced each other in spite of his orders, careless of that box of the ears from the invisible with which he had threatened them.
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