On such days the place was fouler than ever, and it was impossible to enter it, owing to the things which had fallen down across the doorway.

At length she ended by leaving her house severely alone.

When the lamp was lit the cupboard with plate-glass doors, the clock and what remained of the curtains still served to impose on the men.

Besides, for six months past her landlord had been threatening to evict her.

Well then, for whom should she be keeping the furniture nice?
For him more than anyone else, perhaps! And so whenever she got up in a merry mood she would shout "Gee up!" and give the sides of the cupboard and the chest of drawers such a tremendous kick that they cracked again.
Nana nearly always found her in bed.