Chap.

 1        1|     human beings thronged and smothered in the exhaustion and nervous
 2        5|       Clarisse, who allowed a smothered oath to escape her. That
 3        5|  staircase a strange sound of smothered oaths and stamping, scuffling
 4        8| burning, and a sound of soft, smothered laughter and lovers’ talk
 5        9|       the ceiling dense night smothered the frescoes, while from
 6        9|  pungent with stale perfumes, smothered sobs of desire were audible.~“
 7       10|    she was frightened, and in smothered tones she stammered:~“Do
 8       10|     whispering voices and the smothered giggles of a woman who is
 9       10|       police!”~Thereupon they smothered their laughter and gazed
10       11|   done it!”~The outcries were smothered by the anxiety which tortured