They played a really rotten, dirty trick on you.

To be fair about it, if it had been me, I'd have taken a knife to her." She drank another small sip, then added rapidly without a pause: "Anyway, it didn't bring them happiness, _mon Dieu_! Not a bit of it.
They went to live over at La Glaciere, in a filthy street that was always muddy.

I went two days later to have lunch with them.

I can tell you, it was quite a trip by bus.

Well, I found them already fighting.
Really, as I came in they were boxing each other's ears.