The sun never shines there, of course.

I took it by artificial light.

You may add to the rent the cost of enough bad beer to make the tenant insensible to the filth of the place.

Beer is the chloroform that enables the laborer to endure the severe operation of living; that is why we can always assure one another over our wine that the rascal's misery is due to his habit of drinking.
We are down on him for it, because, if he could bear his life without beer, we should save his beer-money--get him for lower wages.

In short, we should be richer and he soberer.