Three big girls passed by, raising a current of air with the sweep of their skirts.
Some little children were crying in a neighbouring room.

Then there were old people who seemed quite scared, and distracted priests who, forgetting their calling, caught up their cassocks with both hands, so that they might run the faster to the dining-room.

From the top to the bottom of the house one could feel the floors shaking under the excessive weight of all the people who were packed inside the hotel.
"Oh, I hope that it is all over now, and that the Blessed Virgin will cure him," repeated M.Vigneron, before allowing his neighbours to retire.

"We are going down-stairs, for I must confess that all this has made me feel faint.

I need something to eat, I am terribly hungry." When Pierre and M.de Guersaint at last left their rooms, and went down-stairs, they found to their annoyance that there was not the smallest table-corner vacant in the large dining-room.