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He could not make out even the black ground in front of him, and he was aware of the vast, ɻat horizon only from the March wind blowing in broad, sweeping gusts as though across a sea, bitterly cold after its passage over league upon league of marsh and bare earth. Not a single tree blotted the skyline, and the road rolled on through the blinding spume of darkness, unswerving, like a pier.  \nThe man had left Marchiennes around two o’clock in the morning. He walked with long strides, shivering in his threadbare cotton jacket and his corduroy trousers. A small bundle, tied up in a check handkerchief, was evidently an encumbrance; and he pressed it to his side, ɹrst with one arm, then with the other, so that he could thrust both hands – numb, chapped hands lashed raw by the east wind – deep into his pockets. Homeless and out of work, he had only one thing on his vacant mind: the hope that the cold would be less severe once day had broken. He had been walking like this for an hour when, two kilometres outside Montsou, he saw some red ɹres over to his left, three braziers burning out in the open as though suspended in mid-air. At ɹrst he hesitated, suddenly afraid;  \nbut then he could not resist the painful urge to warm his hands for a moment.  \nA sunken path led away from the road, and the vision vanished. To the man’s right was a wooden fence, more like a wall, made from thick planks and running alongside a railway line; to his left rose a grass embankment topped by a jumble of gables, apparently the low, uniform roof-tops of a village. He walked on a further two hundred paces or so. Abruptly, at a turn in the path, the ɹres reappeared close by him, but he was still at a loss to explain how they could be burning so high up in this dead sky, like smouldering moons. But at ground level something else had caught his attention, some large, heavy mass, a huddled heap of buildings from which rose the outline of a factory chimney. Gleams of light could be seen here and there through grime-coated windows, while outside ɹve or six paltry lanterns hung from a series of wooden structures whose blackened timbers seemed to be vaguely aligned in the shape of gigantic trestles. From the midst of this fantastical apparition, wreathed in smoke and darkness, rose the sound of a solitary voice; long, deep gasps of puɽng steam, invisible to the eye.  \nAnd then the man realized that it was a coal-mine. His misgivings returned. What was the point? There wouldn’t be any work. Eventually, instead of heading towards the buildings, he ventured to climb the spoil-heap to where the three coal ɹres stood burning in cast-iron baskets, oʃering warmth and light to people as they went about their work. The stonemen must have worked late, because the  \nspoil was still being removed. He could now hear the banksmen pushing their trains of coal-tubs along the top of the trestles, and in the light from each ɹre he could see moving shadows tipping up each tub.  \n‘Hallo,’ he said, as he walked towards one of the braziers.  \nStanding with his back to it was the driver, an old man in a purple woollen jersey and a rabbit-skin cap. His horse, a large yellow animal, stood waiting with the immobility of stone as the six tubs it hadjust hauled up were emptied. The workman in charge of the tippler, a skinny, red-headed fellow, was taking his time about it and looked half asleep as he activated the lever. Above them the wind was blowing harder than ever, gusting in great icy blasts like the strokes of a scythe.  \n‘Hallo,’ the driver replied.  \nThere was a silence. Sensing the wariness with which he was being observed, the man introduced himself at once.  \n‘I’m Étien","cbCaiffI9gL5upca","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiffI9gL5upca","pdf",1354483,783,"English","# Part I\n## Étienne Lantier’s journey to Montsou\n## The coal pit at Le Voreux\n## The miners’ village and industrial setting","[{\"question\":\"Who is Étienne Lantier at the start of Germinal?\",\"answer\":\"Étienne Lantier is a mechanic who is homeless and out of work, traveling in search of employment.\"},{\"question\":\"What does Étienne find near Montsou during his night walk?\",\"answer\":\"He discovers a coal-mine operation illuminated by braziers and working machinery, including trains of coal tubs and a factory chimney.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does Étienne approach the braziers and speak with the men there?\",\"answer\":\"He is driven to warm his numb, chapped hands and uses the moment to ask whether any work is available at the pit.\"}]","Germinal - Part I | PDF",1206]