And after observing Gervaise a moment, he malignantly added: "Don't you even wash yourself now ?" Gervaise was twenty-two, tall and slim with fine features, but she was already beginning to show the strain of her hard life.

She seemed to have aged ten years from the hours of agonized weeping.

Lantier's mean remark made her mad.
"You're not fair," she said spiritedly.

"You well know I do all I can.
It's not my fault we find ourselves here.

I would like to see you, with two children, in a room where there's not even a stove to heat some water.