Voice
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"The husband," murmured Levaque, lowering her voice, as if he could hear her, seized by that hierarchical fear which the manager inspired in his ten thousand workpeople.
She spoke with the soft
voice
of a big, delicate girl, without passion, simply tired of her life.
He had advanced, and was entreating her in a low
voice
in the middle of the road.
Then, when he had served the young people, he planted himself at the door to watch them disappear in the twilight; and when his wife came to ask him a question in a timid voice, he fell on her, abusing her, and exclaiming that he would make them repent some day, the filthy creatures, who had no gratitude, when they ought all to be on the ground licking his feet.
He growled in a low voice:"Stupid!
Only one
voice
was still heard, the thick, slow respiration of the pumping engine, breathing both by day and by night.
And he replied with his gentle voice, almost without an accent:"I am thirsty when I eat."
They spoke one after the other in a despairing voice, giving expression to their complaints.
He said in a low voice, with abstracted gaze, as if to himself:"Raise wages--how can you?
The young man had lowered his
voice
to complain about the house: they were worthy people, certainly, people with good ideas, but the beer was worthless and the soup abominable!
"Sure enough!" said Maheu in his slow voice, "sure enough, you would be better in a family."
She accepted a chair, and seemed pleased to hear that she was at last to be married; then, as they were looking for Zacharie, she replied in her soft voice:"I am waiting for him; he is over there."
Now the cornet was whistling a polka, and as the deafening noise began again, Maheu, in a low voice, communicated an idea to his wife.
With his enthusiastic
voice
he spoke on and on.
His
voice
trembled, and when he had reached the end they all continued to gaze steadily at the placard.
" Maheu followed this calculation in a low voice: nine days gave him about thirty francs, eighteen to Catherine, nine to Jeanlin.
Then it seemed to him that the secretary's
voice
became harder.
Outside, putters, miners, and boys were running about, forming groups and talking in a low
voice.
"It won't do any good to worry yourself," said Maheu in a low voice, "perhaps we have not got to the end."
But at that moment Madame Hennebeau's
voice
called from the first story:"Is that you, Paul?
"There has been a famine in India," said Deneulin in a low voice, as though he were speaking to himself.
Then, raising his voice:"The worst is that to lower the net prices we ought logically to produce more; otherwise the reduction bears on wages, and the worker is right in saying that he has to pay the damage."
The mirth was unbounded when Négrel, having asked the housemaid for bread, she replied, "Yes, sir," in a
voice
as low and terrified as if she had behind her a troop ready for murder and rape.
Madame Hennebeau said to her husband, lowering her voice:"I hope you will drink your coffee."
They were stifling their laughter and talking in a low
voice.
Then he began, at first in a low and hesitating
voice.
His
voice
grew stronger.
This sentence, so moderate in form, was pronounced in a low voice, but with such conviction, tremulous in its menace, that a deep silence followed.
She forgot herself in describing its horrors, in a mournful voice, her eyes lost in space, her breast open; while her infant, Estelle, without letting it go, had fallen asleep on her knees.
Then in a frank
voice
she added, fixing her eyes on the young man:"I have my faults, sure enough, but not that one.
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