A groan of irrepressible anguish burst from his lips.

He was left in impenetrable darkness.
The mass of brick-work, after it had struck him, rolled a little to one side.

By a desperate exertion he extricated himself from under it--only to swoon from the fresh anguish caused to him by the effort.
For a short time he lay insensible in his cold dark solitude.

Then, reviving after this first shock, he began to experience in all their severity, the fierce spasms, the dull gnawings, the throbbing torments, that were the miserable consequences of the injury he received.

His arm lay motionless by his side--he had neither strength nor resolution to move any one of the other sound limbs in his body.