Spite
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He even went there for a moment now, in
spite
of the wet weather, and shouted out a rough joke to a comrade, whose breast was also naked, on the other side of the gardens.
Zacharie was already pushing Philoméne in
spite
of her resistance into the same solitary path.
The bosses were always bothering him about the damned planking question; he feared every hour the appearance of the engineer Négrel, followed by Dansaert, shouting, discussing, ordering everything to be done over again, and he remarked that his putter's timbering gave greater satisfaction to these gentlemen, in
spite
of their air of never being pleased with anything, and their repeated assertions that the Company would one day or another take radical measures.
Things dragged on; a deep discontent was fomenting in the pit, and Maheu himself, in
spite
of his calmness, was beginning to clench his fists.
the strata, a general disturbance in the layers, which certainly announced that they were approaching a fault; and, in fact, they soon came across this fault which the engineers, in
spite
of considerable knowledge of the soil, were still ignorant of.
Since Saturday evening the good housekeepers of the settlement had deluged their parlours with water, throwing bucketfuls over the flags and against the walls; and the floor was not yet dry, in
spite
of the white sand which had been strewn over it, an expensive luxury for the purses of the poor.
If a sort of obsession made him watch her in
spite
of himself at the moment when she lay down, he avoided all practical jokes or dangerous pastimes.
The parents were there, and besides he still had for her a feeling, half of friendship and half of spite, which prevented him from treating her as a girl to be desired, in the midst of the abandonment of their now common life in dressing, at meals, during work, where nothing of them remained secret, not even their most intimate needs.
Then, when the candle was out, they both knew that they were not sleeping but were thinking of each other in
spite
of their weariness.
In the parlour the clock ticked slowly, and a damp freshness arose from the sanded floor in
spite
of the stuffy air.
The minutes went by and neither he nor she moved, only their breathing was embarrassed in
spite
of their efforts to retain it.
He would drink nothing, in
spite
of the polite insistence of Madame Rasseneur, who sold her beer as though she made a present of it.
Maheude grew bitter, in
spite
of her moderation and good sense.
The crayfish were still going round; the little crackling sound of their carapaces could be heard, while the conversation turned to politics, M. Grégoire, in
spite
of everything and though still trembling, called himself a Liberal and regretted Louis Philippe.
Both of them, when the moment of action came, in
spite
of the injustice of their wretchedness fell back on the resignation of their race, trembling before the morrow, preferring still to bend their backs to the yoke.
At the quay on the canal a barge was moored, half-laden, lying drowsily in the murky water; and on the deserted pit-bank, in which the decomposed sulphates smoked in
spite
of the rain, a melancholy cart showed its shafts erect.
There was an absolute confidence in
spite
of everything, a religious faith, the blind gift of a population of believers.
In
spite
of his power, the young man had to reckon with the innkeeper, whose services were of older date, and who had faithful followers among his clients.
But their looks met; he found her pale and exhausted; pretty, indeed, with her clear eyes in the face which had grown tanned, and he experienced a singular feeling; his
spite
had vanished; he simply desired that she should be happy with this man whom she had preferred to him.
In
spite
of an effort his gaze again returned to her breast, that expanse of white flesh, the brilliance of which now made him uncomfortable.
In
spite
of his anxiety, he could not help smiling when he looked at her, so vast did she appear, with a pair of breasts so huge that one alone would require a man to embrace it, which now led to the saying that of her six weekday lovers she had to take two every evening on account of the work.
It was at bottom that which always strains systems, making one man revolutionary in the extreme, pushing the other to an affectation of prudence, carrying them, in
spite
of themselves, beyond their true ideas into those fatal parts which men do not choose for themselves.
And first I warn you that the meeting will take place even if Pluchart does not come, and the mates will join in
spite
of you.""Oh! join!" muttered the innkeeper; "that's not enough.
In
spite
of his comrade's silence, conquered even by that silence, he felt himself gradually absorbed.
But he went on speaking in
spite
of the tumult, taking repeated gulps of beer, and shouting violently that the man was not born who would prevent him from doing his duty.
Only they vowed to yield nothing and to maintain, in
spite
of everything, their terms, which were alone just.
Mouquette, seated on a beam in
spite
of the great cold, had grown desperate in waiting for him.
In
spite
of the weak light of the lanterns, with a quick look he took in the scene, with this rabble wrapt in shadow; he knew every face--the pike-men, the porters, the landers, the putters, even the trammers.
At nine o'clock, when Madame Hennebeau arrived in her carriage with Cécile, she found Lucie and Jeanne quite ready and very elegant, in
spite
of their dresses having been renovated for the twentieth time.
It offended his workman's heart, in
spite
of his resentment.
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