They occupied a grand salon, rich in moldings and gildings and poor in furniture.

Three armchairs, an old divan, a table littered with papers, toilet articles and eatables, and a rather narrow couch in one of the corners, were all the conveniences of this new establishment.
In the street it was hot, and yet they were shivering with cold in this magnificent room into which the sun's rays had never penetrated.
Ulysses attempted to make a fire on a hearth of colored marble, big as a monument, but he had to desist half-suffocated by the smoke.

In order to reach the doctor's apartment they had to pass through a row of numberless connecting rooms, long since abandoned.
They lived as newly-wed people, in an amorous solitude, commenting with childish hilarity on the defects of their quarters and the thousand little inconveniences of material existence.

Freya would prepare breakfast on a small alcohol stove, defending herself from her lover, who believed himself more skilled than she in culinary affairs.

A sailor knows something of everything.
The mere suggestion of hunting a servant for their most common needs irritated the German maiden.
"Never!...