Spite
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Then, in
spite
of her fear, she came back to the same place again, still running.
Maheu had pushed him, and Maheude was among those who grew furious, both of them satisfying their old spite; even Mouquette, who generally remained such good friends with her old lovers, was wild with this one, treating him as a good-for-nothing, and talking of taking his breeches down to see if he was still a man.
This responsibility troubled him in
spite
of his habitual energy.
He rose and spoke aloud, breaking into the flood of coarseness with which his parched throat was bursting in
spite
of himself.
"Take out your scent-bottles, the sweat of the people is passing by!" murmured Négrel, who, in
spite
of his republican convictions, liked to make fun of the populace when he was with ladies.
Cécile, in the hay, no longer stirred; and the others, in
spite
of the wish to turn away their eyes, could not do so: they were compelled to gaze.
The stones, in
spite
of his orders, went on hailing, and he was astonished and terrified by these brutes he had unmuzzled, who were so slow to move and then so terrible, so ferociously tenacious in their rage.
In his fever of anxiety he had climbed the palings with agility in
spite
of his weight, and without troubling over the breaking wood; and now he was flattening himself along the tiles, and endeavouring to reach the window.
In
spite
of his communistic theories, old scruples of education arose, and he contented himself with gnawing his share of dry bread.
In
spite
of the torment of the darkness, he would come to hate the hour for returning to the settlement.
Work had not been resumed at Jean-Bart, and it had been necessary to replace the pump at Gaston-Marie; while, in
spite
of all haste, an inundation had already begun which made great expenses necessary.
In
spite
of the growing daylight, nothing stirred in the settlements; the colliers remained in silent rage beneath the military boot.
The petroleum also was finished; but the reflection of the snow from outside was so bright that it vaguely lit up the room, in
spite
of the deepening night.
Alzire also had said nothing, and was trying not to shiver, so as to avoid giving them pain; but in
spite
of her courage in suffering, she sometimes trembled so much that one could hear against the coverlet the quivering of the little invalid girl's lean body, while with her large open eyes she stared at the ceiling, from which the pale reflection of the white gardens lit up the room like moonshine.
All the same, he talks on in
spite
of everything and wants to go to Paris.
The evening before he had chatted with some mates, and he felt that breaths of
spite
and suspicion were passing over him, those first breaths of unpopularity which forerun defeat.
I came in here to show you that I feel esteem for you in
spite
of everything.
Then he became very pale, and his face contracted with nausea; while, in
spite
of his stoicism, two large tears were swelling beneath his eyelids.
But Catherine had seen; and in
spite
of herself a loud cry came from her heart, astonishing her like the avowal of a preference she had herself been ignorant of:"Take care!
The recollection of the blows she had dealt him at Gaston-Marie now attracted him instead of filling him with
spite.
In
spite
of the man whom she had had, this lessened her, placed her among the urchins.
He could find no argument to convince her, in
spite
of the deep vexation which he felt at seeing her go back to Chaval.
But when she reached it she was seized by such shame that she rushed away along the gardens for fear of being recognized by someone, in
spite
of the heavy sleep which weighed on all eyes behind the closed shutters.
Their hearts rose in revolt, and they had at last embraced each other in
spite
of his orders, careless of that box of the ears from the invisible with which he had threatened them.
In
spite
of his firm voice, he was growing pale with increasing anxiety, as the flood of miners continued to swell.
The Levaque woman was almost putting her shoulders out, being so large and soft that she had to come near to get her aim, in
spite
of Bouteloup's entreaties, and he dragged her back in the hope of being able to lead her away now that her husband had been taken off.
Oh! he's afloat now, in
spite
of his sore throat.
After that he was only able to see by the hanging lamp which preceded him in the darkness, and, in
spite
of his courage, he shuddered and turned pale in the face of the horror of the disaster.
They could not even understand this mad courage in destruction; they refused to believe, in
spite
of the evidence, just as we doubt those stories of celebrated escapes of prisoners who fly through windows thirty metres above the ground.
Zacharie, who had come up among the first, in
spite
of his inclination to make fun of everything had weepingly kissed his wife and mother, and remained near the latter, quivering, and showing an unexpected degree of affection for his sister, refusing to believe that she was below so long as the bosses made no authoritative statement.
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