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Separated by planks, hooked on to retain the fallen coal, they each occupied about four metres of the seam, and this seam was so thin,
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more than fifty centimetres thick at this spot, that they seemed to be flattened between the roof and the wall, dragging themselves along by their knees and elbows, and unable to turn without crushing their shoulders.
He could
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see her, drowned in a sort of smoky mist; and the idea that she was a girl disturbed him because he felt that it was stupid not to embrace her, and yet the recollection of the other man prevented him.
He had heard the day before, that M. Deneulin, the owner of a neighbouring pit, could
scarcely
keep going.
When he went to the Voreux, when he came back, whenever he came out of his hole, he could
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put a foot down without treading on a couple in the grass; and it was worse if he wanted to gather wood to heat his soup or look for burdocks for his rabbit at the other end of the enclosure.
The two old men spoke little,
scarcely
exchanging ten words during the half-hour that they spent together.
She would hasten without looking at him, and in ten seconds was undressed and stretched beside Alzire, with so supple and snake-like a movement that he had
scarcely
taken off his shoes when she disappeared, turning her back and only showing her heavy knot of hair.
Have they not a provident fund?""Yes,
scarcely
three thousand francs.
The other delegates, though
scarcely
understanding, felt that their comrade had been demanding their share of this comfort; and they began to cast sidelong looks over the warm hangings, the comfortable seats, all this luxury of which the least knick-knack would have bought them soup for a month.
Four thousand francs sent by the International from London had
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supplied bread for three days, and then nothing had come.
Small charities
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sufficed to maintain the poorer families.
He
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understood, with head heavy and dazed with sleep, and the great cold struck him like an icy douche.
Lucie, the elder, was already twenty-two, a tall dark girl, with a haughty air; while Jeanne, the younger, as yet
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nineteen years old, was small, with golden hair and a certain caressing grace.
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eighty lamps had been taken; the others were flaming in the lamp cabin.
She
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saw them by the reddish gleam of the lamps, entirely naked like animals, so black, so encrusted in sweat and coal, that their nakedness did not frighten her.
She had
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got a third of the way before she streamed, blinded, soiled also by the black mud.
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
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allowed the shoulders to pass.
There were
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three hundred of them.
How could he defend these buildings, open on every side? he could
scarcely
group some twenty of his workmen round himself.
He repeated:"On we go to the other pits, and you come with us, you dirty devil!"Chaval had
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time to get his sabots from the shed and to throw his woollen jacket over his frozen shoulders.
His wife had simply taken another lover; that she had chosen him in the family
scarcely
aggravated the fact; perhaps even it was an advantage, for she thus preserved appearances.
But the engine-man was still preoccupied, and
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replied.
Immediately the rock gave way, and they
scarcely
had time to crawl back on their elbows and knees.
He shouted to her to go at once by the door if she did not wish to go by the window; and
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dressed, in tears, and bruised by kicks in her legs, she had been obliged to go down, pushed outside by a final thrust.
He went up to the captain, a tall thin young man of
scarcely
twenty-eight years, with a despairing, resolute face.
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a dozen had gone down, merely Pierron and some sneaks of his sort, whose departure and arrival were gloomily watched without a gesture or a threat.
When he raised his head there were threatening men there, women drawing aside the curtains from their windows; and beneath this still silent accusation and the restrained anger of these eyes, enlarged by hunger and tears, he became awkward and could
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walk straight.
A discreet allusion was made to those dead whose blood the Voreux mud had yet
scarcely
drunk up.
With the knife at his throat he had submitted to the directors' demands, at last giving up to them that prey they had been on the watch for so long,
scarcely
obtaining from them the money necessary to pay off his creditors.
No doubt the stoves of the boilers were
scarcely
extinguished, for the tall brick chimney gave out a light smoke beneath the dark clouds; while the weathercock on the steeple creaked in the wind with a short, shrill cry, the only melancholy voice of these vast buildings which were about to die.
The engineer was astonished; he again applied his ear, and was at last able to catch a sound of aerial softness, a rhythmical roll
scarcely
to be distinguished, the well-known cadence beaten by the miners when they are fighting against the coal in the midst of danger.
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