Moreover, she had the boarders' meal to see to, and that of the doctor, his wife, and their servant; the billiard-room was echoing with bursts of laughter; three millers in a small parlour were calling for brandy; the wood was blazing, the brazen pan was hissing, and on the long kitchen table, amid the quarters of raw mutton, rose piles of plates that rattled with the shaking of the block on which spinach was being chopped.
A kisebbik teremben három molnár pálinkát követelt. A tűzhelyen a fa lángolt, a szén pattogott, s a hosszú konyha-asztalon a nyers ürühús szomszédságában felhalmozott tányérok egyre csörömpöltek, mialatt a deszkán a parajt apritották.