Many of the men who had come up from the shaft remained there stupidly without thinking of changing their clothes, riveted by fear before this terrible hole in which they had nearly remained for ever.
Beaucoup des ouvriers remontés du puits demeuraient la, stupides, sans penser a changer de vetements, retenus par une fascination de la peur, en face de ce trou effrayant ou ils avaient failli rester.