It was covered with thick blanketing and draped with a strip of cretonne patterned with blue flower sprays that hid the trestles beneath.
Gervaise was enchanted with her pretty establishment and would often seat herself on a stool and sigh with contentment, delighted with all the new equipment.

Her first glance always went to the cast-iron stove where the irons were heated ten at a time, arranged over the heat on slanting rests.

She would kneel down to look into the stove to make sure the apprentice had not put in too much coke.
The lodging at the back of the shop was quite decent.

The Coupeaus slept in the first room, where they also did the cooking and took their meals; a door at the back opened on to the courtyard of the house.

Nana's bed was in the right hand room, which was lighted by a little round window close to the ceiling.