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Scarcely
had I finished my repast, when I felt myself sink by degrees into a strange torpor.
"How, madame," said she, "I have
scarcely
seen you, and you already wish to deprive me of your company, upon which I had counted a little, I must confess, for the time I have to pass here?"
63 THE DROP OF WATERRochefort had
scarcely
departed when Mme. Bonacieux re-entered.
But
scarcely
had he expressed his request when the unknown, who remained standing before the Musketeer, drew back with signs of terror, and refused.
The tall man had
scarcely
read these lines, seen the signature, and recognized the seal, when he bowed to denote that he had no longer any objection to make, and that he was ready to obey.
I had
scarcely
had time to move when the Professor was again shouting after me: "What!
My eyes were dim, I could
scarcely
see.
Scarcely
could my lips utter the words:"Are we really going?""Of course, you unhappy boy!Could I have dreamed that you would have gone out for a walk instead of hurrying your preparations forward?""Are we to go?"I asked again, with sinking hopes.
No trees, and
scarcely
any vegetation.
A negative was expressed by a slow movement of the head from left to right, an affirmative by a slight bend, so slight that his long hair
scarcely
moved.
There was nothing remarkable here but a few houses,
scarcely
enough for a German hamlet.
The rarefied air
scarcely
gave play to the action of my lungs.
The slope of this gallery was
scarcely
perceptible, and its sections very unequal.
By six in the evening, after a not very fatiguing walk, we had gone two leagues south, but
scarcely
a quarter of a mile down.
I
scarcely
ate, and I swallowed down the few drops of water rationed out to me.
My uncle
scarcely
could restrain his impatience at the horizontal road.
The gallery dipped down a very little way from the horizontal,
scarcely
more than two inches in a fathom, and the stream ran gently murmuring at our feet.
At this distance from its spring the water was
scarcely
tepid, and we drank of it with pleasure.
But I have good reason for remembering one very serious event which took place at this time, and of which I could
scarcely
now forget the smallest details.
I could
scarcely
succeed.
I
scarcely
dared to shut my eyes for one moment, for fear of losing the least glimmer of this precious light.
I remarked: "It is so; and here is a fact which science has
scarcely
suspected."
These thoughts agitated me all day, and my imagination
scarcely
calmed down after several hours' sleep.
The electric light can
scarcely
penetrate through the dense curtain which has dropped over the theatre on which the battle of the elements is about to be waged.
The darkness deepens;
scarcely
can I jot down a few hurried notes.
Scarcely
has he lifted his head again before a ball of fire has bounded over the waves and lighted on board our raft.
There within three square miles were accumulated the materials for a complete history of the animal life of ages, a history
scarcely
outlined in the too recent strata of the inhabited world.
Then one very serious question arose presently which we
scarcely
dared to suggest.
As to his features, they were
scarcely
human in their disfigurement, for the deep wrinkles and pouchings of extreme age had been added to a face which had always been grotesquely ugly, and had been crushed and smashed in addition by many a blow.
The phaeton was waiting, but we had
scarcely
started when some fellow seized the horses' heads, and a couple of ruffians attacked us.
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