[The Fortune of the Rougons by Emile Zola]@TWC D-Link bookThe Fortune of the Rougons CHAPTER I 74/88
There's Pruinas! Roches Noires! Those last are smugglers: they are carrying carbines.
Still more scythes and pitchforks, the contingents of country folk are still passing. Castel-le-Vieux! Sainte-Anne! Graille! Estourmel! Murdaran!" His voice was husky with emotion as he finished naming these men, who seemed to be borne away by a whirlwind as fast as he enumerated them. Erect, with glowing countenance, he pointed out the several contingents with a nervous gesture.
Miette followed his movements.
The road below attracted her like the depths of a precipice.
To avoid slipping down the incline she clung to the young man's neck.
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