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Rasseneur's practical demands were mixed up in his mind with Souvarine's violent and destructive methods, and when he came out of the Avantage, where he was to be found nearly every day railing with them against the Company, he walked as if in a dream, assisting at a radical regeneration of nations to be effected without one broken
window
or a single drop of blood.
"Hush!" said M. Hennebeau, vexed, looking at the window, through which the road could be seen.
One day, even, he had forced Lydie to steal from her mother, and made her bring him two dozen sticks of barley-sugar, which Pierronne kept in a bottle on one of the boards in her window; and the little girl, who was well beaten, had not betrayed him because she trembled so before his authority.
At last he awoke, and really hearing a voice, got out and opened the
window.
He had placed himself at a
window
of the screening-shed; and in the face of this increasing flood which filled the square, he at once felt his impotence.
They fell on their knees, and thought themselves killed on hearing a single stone breaking a pane of a neighbouring
window.
bread!"Chapter 5M. HENNEBEAU had placed himself in front of his study
window
to watch the departure of the carriage which was taking away his wife to lunch at Marchiennes.
But the tumult increased, and a terrible cry broke out just as he was going to the window:"Bread!
bread!"M. Hennebeau was standing at the
window
when Hippolyte came in to close the shutters, for fear the windows should be broken by stones.
Unfortunately, it was not possible to shut the kitchen
window
in the area in the same way, a
window
made disquietingly ruddy by the gleams from the saucepans and the spit.
Beneath the
window
the yells broke out with increased violence:"Bread!
Since he had been here he noticed at a
window
of his house his wife's thin silhouette, pale and confused, behind the panes; no doubt she was watching the blows with her usual silent air of a poor beaten creature.
Beneath there was a shed, so placed that from the villa garden one could climb it from the palings; then it was easy to get on to the tiles up to the
window.
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.
Up above, at the window, Madame Maigrat still stood motionless; but beneath the last gleams of the setting sun, the confused flaws of the window-panes distorted her white face which looked as though it were laughing.
The servant had, however, promised that he would come to the settlement before night, and the mother was standing at the
window
watching, while the little invalid, who had wished to be downstairs, was shivering on a chair, having the illusion that it was better there near the cold grate.
She crossed the ends of the coverlet over the little one's quivering body, and placed herself before the window, looking out vaguely.
"Not come," replied Maheude, still standing before the
window.
A black figure passed before the
window.
But before the engine-man could reach the door, Rasseneur had opened it, and, recognizing the man who stood there in the light from the window, he said to him:"Are you afraid that I shall sell you?
The house remained black and silent; he only saw a light appear at a first-floor window, and as this
window
opened, and he recognized the thin shadow that was leaning over the road, he came near.
He shouted to her to go at once by the door if she did not wish to go by the window; and scarcely dressed, in tears, and bruised by kicks in her legs, she had been obliged to go down, pushed outside by a final thrust.
They both showed themselves for a moment at a
window
of the receiving-room; the head captain stood in the background, rather out of countenance since his adventure with Pierronne, while the engineer bravely looked round on the crowd with his bright little eyes, smiling with that sneering contempt in which he enveloped men and things generally.
But his voice was lost in the midst of so frightful a tumult that he had to leave the
window
again, simply shrugging his shoulders.
The frightened faces of Négrel and Dansaert could be seen at the
window
of the receiving-room.
Its naked walls didn't reveal any trace of a door or
window.
"Which would all go out the window!"
The darkness in the lounge enhanced the brightness outside, and we stared as if this clear glass were the
window
of an immense aquarium.
I stood up, went, leaned on my elbows before the window, and I saw it.
I rushed to the
window
and saw crusts of coral: fungus coral, siphonula coral, alcyon coral, sea anemone from the genus Caryophylia, plus myriads of charming fish including greenfish, damselfish, sweepers, snappers, and squirrelfish; underneath this coral covering I detected some rubble the old dredges hadn't been able to tear free-- iron stirrups, anchors, cannons, shells, tackle from a capstan, a stempost, all objects hailing from the wrecked ships and now carpeted in moving flowers.
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