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They have tried if they can open a way from the old shaft , but can not do it with safety . Lady Lucy still the same , but paler and more worn , I think , less hopeful ; I hope , more resigned . ` Aug. 23rd . -- Poor Lucy was really tired out , and slept for two whole hours in the heat of the noon , sitting on the ground by old Betty , fairly overpowered . It was a touching sight ; the old woman watching her so sedulously , and all the rough people keeping such strict silence , and driving off all that could disturb her . The pitmen look at her with such compassionate reverence ! The look and word she gives them are ten thousand times more to them , I am sure , than the high pay they get for every hour they work !