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The ventilation did not reach to the bottom of this distant passage.
Even in the cutting you're not so hot; if you only knew how it roasts you at the bottom of the passage!""Sure enough," he replied, "it would be better under the trees.
They threw themselves toward the shaft, they crushed through the narrow door to the ladder passage; while an old groom who had prudently led back the horses to the stable, looked at them with an air of contemptuous indifference, accustomed to spend nights in the pit and certain that he could eventually be drawn out of it.
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.
The passage, however, was no longer used except in cases of accident.
And in the dizziness which came over her, she recalled her grandfather Bonnemort's stories of the days when there was no passage, and little girls of ten used to take out the coal on their shoulders up bare ladders; so that if one of them slipped, or a fragment of coal simply rolled out of a basket, three or four children would fall down head first from the blow.
The panting of many breaths now drowned the sound of the feet, forming an enormous moan, multiplied tenfold by the partition of the passage, arising from the depths and expiring towards the light.
She never knew how she reached daylight, carried up on people's shoulders, supported by the throttling narrowness of the passage.
He was not always listened to; and was again about to be carried away by the crowd, when hoots arose outside at a little low door where the ladder passage emerged.
And as every fresh miner appeared at the door of the passage, covered with the black mud of work and with garments in rags, the hooting redoubled, and ferocious jokes arose.
The railway line barred their passage, and they crossed it, pulling down the palings.
It was there that he was in hiding; no one believed him so near; the quiet audacity of that refuge, in the very mine, in that abandoned passage of the old pit, had baffled search.
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.
The neighbourhood of the child became so unbearable that he escaped, tormented by the need for fresh air, hastening through the galleries and up the passage, as though he could hear a shadow, panting, at his heels.
But instead of going out through the shed he passed through the narrow corridor which led to the ladder passage.
Without haste he took breath, and then went back into the ladder passage, stopping up the hole by replacing the panel which he had sawn.
All were asleep, but they had to cross the narrow passage where the mother slept.
Some who had thought of trying the ladder passage came down again shouting that it was already stopped up.
In the first terror no one had thought of the other shaft at the old Réquillart mine, M. Hennebeau was about to announce that the rescue would be attempted from that side, when a rumour ran round: five men had just escaped the inundation by climbing up the rotten ladders of the old unused passage, and Father Mouque was named.
He had slid down the ladders, in spite of the watchman, and was declaring that he had heard hammering over there, in the first passage of the Guillaume seam.
The idea that they might get out by the old neighbouring pit if they arrived before the passage was cut off, now carried them away.
Here, let us go straight on; we will climb up the passage."
They had reached the chimney passage, when a noise behind made them turn.
They ascended the chimney passage, soaked to the shoulders.
And for hours this ascent continued, the flood chasing them from passage to passage, and constantly forcing them to ascend.
Fortunately a door opened here and they passed into a passage.
The passage sloped up, and they took refuge at the end.
CHAPTER 3As Master WishesTHREE SECONDS before the arrival of J. B. Hobson's letter, I no more dreamed of chasing the unicorn than of trying for the Northwest Passage.
It went more to the north, hugged the Murray Islands, and returned to the southwest near Cumberland Passage.
On the other side of the passage was Charles's consulting room, a little room about six paces wide, with a table, three chairs, and an office chair.
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