Amidst the excruciating squalling of the children, and the ceaseless rumble of the traffic in the Rue Saint Denis, she took part in no end of gossip, everlasting tales about the tradesmen of the neighbourhood, the grocers, the butchers, and the bakers, enough, indeed, to fill the columns of a local paper, and the whole envenomed by refusals of credit and covert envy, such as is always harboured by the poor.
Umeen txilio jasanezinen artean, gurdien kirrinka jarraituaren erdian, atzealdean, Saint-Denis kalean, hornitzaileei, dendariei, okinei, harakinei buruzko esamesak etengabeak ziren; auzoko kazeta zen hura bete-betean, txiroen bekaizkeria sorgorrak eta kreditu ukatuek mingostua.