He was well clothed, and ate and drank his fill.

He had laid aside the basket work altogether; sometimes, when he was feeling over-bored, he would resolve to plait a dozen baskets for the next market day; but very often he did not even finish the first one.

He kept, under a couch, a bundle of osier which he did not use up in twenty years.
The Macquarts had three children, two girls and a boy.

Lisa,[*] born the first, in 1827, one year after the marriage, remained but little at home.

She was a fine, big, healthy, full-blooded child, greatly resembling her mother.