This broke off all relations.

Now they only exchanged terrible glares when they encountered each other.
"Yes, she leads a pretty life!" Madame Lorilleux kept saying.

"We all know where the money came from that she paid for her wretched shop! She borrowed it from the blacksmith; and he springs from a nice family too! Didn't the father cut his own throat to save the guillotine the trouble of doing so?
Anyhow, there was something disreputable of that sort!" She bluntly accused Gervaise of flirting with Goujet.

She lied--she pretended she had surprised them together one night on a seat on the exterior Boulevards.

The thought of this liaison, of pleasures that her sister-in-law was no doubt enjoying, exasperated her still more, because of her own ugly woman's strict sense of propriety.