the last book I ever read (Cousin Bazilio by Jose Maria Eça de Queiroz, excerpt seven)

from Cousin Bazilio by Jose Maria Eça de Queiroz (Translated by Margaret Jull Costa):

He exhaled a vast cloud of smoke and said darkly:

‘That house is turning into a veritable sink of iniquity!

‘Into a what‚ Senhor Paula?’

‘A sink of iniquity‚ Senhora Helena‚ it means “a brothel”.’

And the scandalised patriot strode away.