They wanted a merry-making of the right sort--something out of the ordinary and highly successful.

One does not have so many opportunities for enjoyment.

What most troubled the laundress was to decide whom to invite; she wished to have twelve persons at table, no more, no less.

She, her husband, mother Coupeau, and Madame Lerat, already made four members of the family.

She would also have the Goujets and the Poissons.