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A problem presented itself.
The passage terminated in another gut which he encountered across his path.
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When he had turned the angle of the gallery, the distant glimmer of an air-hole disappeared, the curtain of obscurity fell upon him once more, and he became blind again.
Nevertheless, he advanced as rapidly as possible.
Marius' two arms were passed round his neck, and the former's feet dragged behind him.
He held both these arms with one hand, and groped along the wall with the other. |
