When we arrived in Paris, instead of squandering your money, you should have made a home for us at once, as you promised." "Listen!" Lantier exploded.

"You cracked the nut with me; it doesn't become you to sneer at it now!" Apparently not listening, Gervaise went on with her own thought.

"If we work hard we can get out of the hole we're in.

Madame Fauconnier, the laundress on Rue Neuve, will start me on Monday.

If you work with your friend from La Glaciere, in six months we will be doing well.