The commencement of her reign coincided with a sad bisection of territory.

Shocking as it may be to better regulated minds, these seven people lived in one room.
Moses and the two boys slept in one bed and the grandmother and the three girls in another.

Esther had to sleep with her head on a supplementary pillow at the foot of the bed.

But there can be much love in a little room.
The room was not, however, so very little, for it was of ungainly sprawling structure, pushing out an odd limb that might have been cut off with a curtain.

The walls nodded fixedly to one another so that the ceiling was only half the size of the floor.