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ANOTHER fortnight had passed by. It was the beginning of January and cold mists benumbed the immense plain. The misery1 had grown still greater, and the settlements were in agony from hour to hour beneath the increasing famine. Four thousand francs sent by the International from London had scarcely supplied bread for three days, and then nothing had come. This great dead hope was beating down their courage. On what were they to count now since even their brothers had abandoned them? They felt themselves separated from the world and lost in the midst of this deep winter.
On Tuesday no resources were left in the Deux-Cent-Quarante settlement. étienne and the delegates had multiplied their energies. New subscriptions2 were opened in the neighbouring towns, and even in Paris; collections were made and lectures organized. These efforts came to nothing. Public opinion, which had at first been moved, grew indifferent now that the strike dragged on for ever, and so quietly, without any dramatic incidents. Small charities scarcely sufficed to maintain the poorer families. The others lived by pawning3 their clothes and selling up the household piece by piece. Everything went to the brokers5, the wool of the mattresses6, the kitchen utensils7, even the furniture. For a moment they thought themselves saved, for the small retail8 shopkeepers of Montsou, killed out by Maigrat, had offered credit to try and get back their custom; and for a week Verdonck, the grocer, and the two bakers9, Carouble and Smelten, kept open shop, but when their advances were exhausted10 all three stopped. The bailiffs were rejoicing; there only resulted a piling up of debts which would for a long time weigh upon the miners. There was no more credit to be had anywhere and not an old saucepan to sell; they might lie down in a corner to die like mangy dogs.

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n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦 | |
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v.典当,抵押( pawn的现在分词 );以(某事物)担保 | |
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