Their limbs knocked against the walls of the narrow duct.

The water flowed almost immediately beneath the stones above, and their faces were torn by them.

Then the current carried them away.

Their breasts were crushed with air heavier than that of a sepulchre, and stretching themselves out as much as possible with their heads between their arms and their legs close together, they passed like arrows into the darkness, choking, gurgling, and almost dead.

Suddenly all became black before them, and the speed of the waters redoubled.