It was not the few million francs that had been lost, it was the wound in the flank, the deep incessant fear of the morrow in face of this massacre of one of their mines.
Ce n'étaient point les quelques millions perdus, c'était la blessure au flanc, la frayeur sourde et incessante du lendemain, en face de l'égorgement d'un de ses puits.