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When by the narrow footpath they had reached the unmown glade covered on one side by a thick growth of bright John-and-Maries, with tall spreading bushes of dark green sneezewort between them, Levin asked his guests to sit down in the deep cool shade of the young aspens – upon a bench and some tree stumps specially arranged for visitors to the apiary who might be afraid of bees – while he went to the hut to fetch bread, cucumbers, and fresh honey for the grown-up people as well as for the children.
The handsome old man, with a black beard turning grey in places and thick silvery hair, stood motionless with a bowl of honey in his hand, gazing kindly and calmly down from his height at the gentlefolk, clearly neither understanding them nor wishing to understand.
It was a heavy mass, a low pile of buildings from which rose the silhouette of a factory chimney; occasional gleams appeared from dirty windows, five or six melancholy lanterns were hung outside to frames of blackened wood, which vaguely outlined the profiles of gigantic stages; and from this fantastic apparition, drowned in night and smoke, a single voice arose, the thick, long breathing of a steam escapement that could not be seen.
He could explain even the escapement of the pump, that thick, long breathing that went on without ceasing, and which seemed to be the monster's congested respiration.
But one doubt troubled him, a fear of the Voreux in the middle of this flat plain, drowned in so thick a night.
The single room that occupied the first floor was drowned in a thick darkness which seemed to overwhelm with its weight the sleep of the beings whom one felt to be there in a mass, with open mouths, overcome by weariness.
But a growl came from the landing, and Maheu's thick voice stammered;"Devil take it!
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, scarcely 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.
And each, having taken out his briquet, bit seriously at the thick slice, uttering occasional words on the morning's work.
Towards the right the pit-bank hid the view, colossal as a barricade of giants, already covered with grass in its older part, consumed at the other end by an interior fire which had been burning for a year with a thick smoke, leaving at the surface in the midst of the pale grey of the slates and sandstones long trails of bleeding rust.
There only remained, unceasingly, the escapement of the pump, always breathing with the same thick, long breath, the ogre's breath of which he could now see the grey steam, and which nothing could satiate.
Just then M. Grégoire came back dressed in a thick fustian jacket; he also was ruddy for his sixty years, with large, good-natured, honest features beneath the snow of his curly hair.
Although over fifty, his short hair and thick moustache were as black as ink.
A faded head, with thick lips and flattened nose, was pressed against a window-pane, calling out:"Got some news.
There had been a sudden thaw; the sky was earth-coloured, the walls were sticky with greenish moisture, and the roads were covered with pitch-like mud, a special kind of mud peculiar to the coal country, as black as diluted soot, thick and tenacious enough to pull off her sabots.
Derelict trains were lying about, and piles of old rotting wood, while a dense vegetation was reconquering this corner of ground, displaying itself in thick grass, and springing up in young trees that were already vigorous.
Only one voice was still heard, the thick, slow respiration of the pumping engine, breathing both by day and by night.
He must have been about thirty years old, fair and slender, with a delicate face framed by thick hair and a slight beard.
The heat was like an oven; they were roasting and felt themselves at ease with glistening skin, gilded in a thick smoke from the pipes; the only discomfort was when one had to move away; from time to time a girl rose, went to the other end, near the pump, lifted her clothes, and then came back.
A thick dust raised by the wind of the fall passed through the passages.
Every quarter of an hour messengers came in, and dispatches fell on his desk as thick as hail.
And above these dead buildings, buried in their garment of black dust, there was only heard the escapement of the pumping-engine, breathing with its thick, long breath all that was left of the life of the pit, which the water would destroy if that breathing should cease.
They were approaching a level where so thick a rain fell that it threatened to extinguish their lamps.
It was white with a thick layer of ice; and they struck it and broke the ice, forcing him to dip his head in this cold water.
Then, when he had assisted Madame Grégoire to draw off her thick cloth mantle, he said, in his turn:"Certainly, they have no malice at bottom.
She was no longer there, having disappeared on the way, so carried away by fear, that she had turned her back to the house, and had moved of her own accord into the thick of danger.
The plain was drowned beneath the thick night, only the blast furnaces and the coke furnaces were burning against the tragic sky.
No smoke came out of the chimneys; the houses, without fire and as cold as the stones in the street, did not melt the thick layer on the tiles.
His woollen jacket was cut by the thick blade, one of those blades fastened by a copper ferrule into a boxwood handle.
His voice became thick, and he coughed as though he were choking.
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