There's only one dinner for all.

If you want dainties you've got your furnaces upstairs where you fricassee pearls till there's nothing else talked of in town.

Get your roast chickens up there." Lemulquinier took his dry bread and went out.
"He will go and buy something to eat with his own money," said Martha; "all the better,--it is just so much saved.

Isn't he stingy, the old scarecrow!" "Starve him! that's the only way to manage him," said Josette.

"For a week past he hasn't rubbed a single floor; I have to do his work, for he is always upstairs.