The other rooms below what had been the eating-house were now shut up, and these two were all the Lebyadkins had.

The furniture consisted of plain benches and deal tables, except for an old arm-chair that had lost its arms.

In the second room there was the bedstead that belonged to Mlle.

Lebyadkin standing in the corner, covered with a chintz quilt; the captain himself went to bed anywhere on the floor, often without undressing.

Everything was in disorder, wet and filthy; a huge soaking rag lay in the middle of the floor in the first room, and a battered old shoe lay beside it in the wet.