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They only kept their lamp and ran in single file--the men, the boys, the putter; the captain himself lost his head and shouted out appeals, more and more frightened at the silence in this endless desert of galleries.
Turning pale, the manager also lowered his voice, with that instinctive need of silence in face of the monstrosity of great orgies and great crimes.
The upper tubbing must nearly all have fallen in, for sudden echoing sounds could be heard as of deep broken falls, succeeded by silence.
Then the sounds ceased, the downfall stopped, and there was again deep silence.
There was a terrified silence, and nothing now could be heard but the fall of this water rumbling in the bowels of the earth.
The Company was so impressed that once more it felt the need of silence.
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.
Maheude sat down again in silence, with motionless face, continuing to wait.
It was the twelfth day of their labours, the fifteenth since the catastrophe; and since the morning there had been a death-like silence.
And a heavy silence fell once more.
They hoped to communicate that very evening with the prisoners, but they-would certainly find nothing but corpses, for the death-like silence continued.
There was a last rumble, the hollow sound of a cask which is being filled; then deep silence fell.
At a hint from the former the latter extinguished his lamp, a piece of useless luxury; then they sank back into silence.
The silence became heavy; an eternity seemed to be prolonging itself with the slowness of monotonous minutes which passed by, one by one, without hope.
There was deep silence; the mine, being gorged with water, no longer stirred.
They continued their reflections in silence, counting the days and days that a workman would take to penetrate such a block.
The Montsou bourgeois, in their victory, felt the vague uneasiness that arses on the morrow of a strike, looking behind them to see if their end did not lie inevitably over there, in spite of all beyond that great silence.
In the midst of the general silence, a voice became audible.
A profound silence reigned over the deck.
All this dismal silence was terrifying.
In silence we waited for the outcome of this scene; Conseil, in spite of himself, seemed almost fascinated, I was stunned.
After a few moments of silence, which none of us would have dreamed of interrupting:"Gentlemen," he said in a calm, penetrating voice, "I speak French, English, German, and Latin with equal fluency.
After a fairly long silence, the commander went on with our conversation.
"Where could one find greater silence or solitude, professor?"
In wonderment, we leaned on our elbows before these show windows, and our stunned silence remained unbroken until Conseil said:"You wanted to see something, Ned my friend; well, now you have something to see!""How unusual!" the Canadian put in, setting aside his tantrums and getaway schemes while submitting to this irresistible allure.
"You're right, professor," he told me after a few moments of silence.
Our meal proceeded pretty much in silence.
After some minutes of silence:"We were discussing," he said, "the views of ancient historians on the dangers of navigating this Red Sea?""True," I replied.
Then night fell in the midst of a heavy silence occasionally broken by the calls of pelicans and nocturnal birds, by the sound of surf chafing against rocks, or by the distant moan of a steamer churning the waves of the gulf with noisy blades.
I stared in silence at the high, sheer wall we were skirting just then, the firm base of the sandy mountains on the coast.
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