The business ate up all his money, leaving his children to run around in rags.

And that Madame Gaudron was pregnant again; this was almost indecent at her age.

The landlord was going to evict the Coquets on the fifth floor.

They owed nine months' rent, and besides, they insisted on lighting their stove out on the landing.

Last Saturday the old lady on the sixth floor, Mademoiselle Remanjou, had arrived just in time to save the Linguerlot child from being badly burned.