Besides, the family seemed to want for nothing; the father continued his duties as a groom at the Voreux while she, saying that she could not live with folded arms, had become a laundress, which brought her in thirty sous a day.
D'ailleurs, la famille ne semblait manquer de rien: le pere continuait son service de palefrenier, au Voreux; et elle, histoire de ne pas vivre les bras croisés, s'était mise blanchisseuse, ce qui lui rapportait trente sous par jour.