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Levin was going to reply, but the old Prince interrupted him.
It seemed to him that he had a reply to that question; but he had no time to express it to himself before he entered the nursery.
The old man this time could not reply: he was strangled by a violent cough.
He did not reply, being occupied in looking on the ground for his leather belt.
The latter was tempted to reply by a blow.
"No! nothing at all," Deneulin hastened to reply.
"Now!" concluded Madame Hennebeau, "if they ask you about our settlements at Paris you will know what to reply.
She felt stifled, and had nothing to reply.
He made no reply, stifled by the emotion he had been keeping back.
Bébert could not reply; he had to hold in Bataille, who was growing lively at the approach of the other train.
"Let me reply, then," at last exclaimed M. Hennebeau, who was growing angry.
"Then, sir, that is all that you reply?
I will make them known to the directors, then I will tell you their reply."
So he still hesitated, not knowing what to reply.
A quiver shook her thin under-developed girlish body, and she tried to reply in broken words:"Oh! if it was only me, and the amusement that I get!
He demanded a reply.
Chaval twice spoke to Catherine without obtaining any reply.
There was delay over the reply, and he was expecting it by the afternoon post.
His mail was there, and he decided to look for the expected letter, the directors' reply.
Never had he reflected so much; he asked himself the why of his disgust on the morrow of that furious course among the pits; and he did not dare to reply to himself, his recollections were repulsive to him, the ignoble desires, the coarse instincts, the odour of all that wretchedness shaken out to the wind.
He persisted in this reply.
Only one at last remained, torturing him and fatiguing him with a question to which he could not reply: Why had he not struck Chaval when he held him beneath the knife?
And there were prisoners taken as well; Levaque had become a sort of hero, and was credited with a reply of antique sublimity to the examining magistrate.
He was about to reply, but then shrugged his shoulders in despair.
why don't you reply?
"I called, but there was no reply.
The engineer, having gone down with ten workmen, made them strike the iron of their tools against certain parts of the seam which he pointed out to them; and in deep silence they each placed an ear to the coal, listening for any distant blows to reply.
Then the other workmen tried the experiment, one after the other, and all grew animated, hearing the distant reply quite clearly.
Every time that a pikeman was relieved, Négrel went down and struck, then applied his ear; and every time, so far, the reply had come, rapid and urgent.
On the ninth day, at the breakfast hour, no reply came from Zacharie when he was called for the relay.
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