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THE shots fired at Montsou had reached as far as Paris with a formidable echo. For four days all the opposition2 journals had been indignant, displaying atrocious narratives3 on their front pages: twenty-five wounded, fourteen dead, including three women and two children. And there were prisoners taken as well; Levaque had become a sort of hero, and was credited with a reply of antique sublimity4 to the examining magistrate5. The empire, hit in mid1 career by these few balls, affected6 the calm of omnipotence7, without itself realizing the gravity of its wound. It was simply an unfortunate collision, something lost over there in the black country, very far from the Parisian boulevards which formed public opinion; it would soon be forgotten. The Company had received official intimation to hush8 up the affair, and to put an end to a strike which from its irritating duration was becoming a social danger.
So on Wednesday morning three of the directors appeared at Montsou. The little town, sick at heart, which had not dared hitherto to rejoice over the massacre9, now breathed again, and tasted the joy of being saved. The weather, too, had become fine; there was a bright sun — one of those first February days which, with their moist warmth, tip the lilac shoots with green. All the shutters10 had been flung back at the administration building, the vast structure seemed alive again. And cheering rumours11 were circulating; it was said that the directors, deeply affected by the

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