However, he suffered not a little from the lesser indignities of their daily life.

The mansion in the Avenue de Villiers was becoming a hell, a house full of mad people, in which every hour of the day wild disorders led to hateful complications.
Nana even fought with her servants.

One moment she would be very nice with Charles, the coachman.

When she stopped at a restaurant she would send him out beer by the waiter and would talk with him from the inside of her carriage when he slanged the cabbies at a block in the traffic, for then he struck her as funny and cheered her up.

Then the next moment she called him a fool for no earthly reason.