I know you would make good tenants.

I can find lots of other tenants for this house, only you know how it is, a nasty, slovenly woman about the house and a raft of dirty children.

And you don't like dirt, I can see that.

Better call it a bargain, and let it go at that." In the end the burnisher's wife took the house.

Geary even induced her to deposit five dollars with him in order to secure it.
Vandover was down in the basement filling a barrel with the odds and ends of rubbish left by the previous tenants: broken bottles, old corsets, bones, rusty bedsprings.