Since he had come to live with them solely to be near his son, surely he wouldn't want to lose him only two weeks after he moved in.

However he approved whole-heartedly when she timidly broached the matter to him.

He said that young men needed to see a bit of the country.

The morning that Etienne left Lantier made a speech to him, kissed him and ended by saying: "Never forget that a workingman is not a slave, and that whoever is not a workingman is a lazy drone." The household was now able to get into the new routine.

Gervaise became accustomed to having dirty laundry lying all around.