And Gervaise was also angered by Nana's exhausted slumber, when after one of her adventures, she slept till noon, with her chignon undone and still full of hair pins, looking so white and breathing so feebly that she seemed to be dead.

Her mother shook her five or six times in the course of the morning, threatening to throw a jugful of water over her.

The sight of this handsome lazy girl, half naked and besotted with wine, exasperated her, as she saw her lying there.
Sometimes Nana opened an eye, closed it again, and then stretched herself out all the more.
One day after reproaching her with the life she led and asking her if she had taken on an entire battalion of soldiers, Gervaise put her threat into execution to the extent of shaking her dripping hand over Nana's body.

Quite infuriated, the girl pulled herself up in the sheet, and cried out: "That's enough, mamma.

It would be better not to talk of men.