Am Billard lachten Gäste, und in der kleinen Gaststube riefen drei Müllerburschen nach Schnaps. Im Herde prasselte und schmorte es, und auf dem langen Küchentische paradierten neben einer rohen Hammelkeule Stöße von Tellern, die nach dem Takte des Wiegemessers tanzten, mit dem die Köchin Spinat zerkleinerte.
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.