1 Jurgis, too, had heard of America.
2 But then suddenly he heard a voice in the corridor, and started for it with a bound.
3 In the distance there was heard again the lowing of the cattle, a sound as of a far-off ocean calling.
4 Jurgis and Ona heard these stories with dismay, for there was no telling when their own time might come.
5 Jurgis heard of these things little by little, in the gossip of those who were obliged to perpetrate them.
6 It seemed as if every time you met a person from a new department, you heard of new swindles and new crimes.
7 Scarcely had they gone a block, however, before Jonas was heard to give a cry, and began pointing excitedly across the street.
8 He drew Jurgis out, and heard all about his life all but the one unmentionable thing; and then he told stories about his own life.
9 The former had been drafted into the army; that had been over ten years ago, but since that day nothing had ever been heard of him.
10 One of the consequences of all these things was that Jurgis was no longer perplexed when he heard men talk of fighting for their rights.
11 Toward evening Jurgis came; he had heard the story from the children, and he brought some food and dry wraps, which made it a little easier.
12 So they went home, with a deadly terror gnawing at their souls; and that evening Jurgis came home and heard their story, and that was the end.
13 He had heard dreadful stories of the midwives, who grow as thick as fleas in Packingtown; and he had made up his mind that Ona must have a man-doctor.
14 In the late spring the canning factory started up again, and so once more Marija was heard to sing, and the love-music of Tamoszius took on a less melancholy tone.
15 The door of the room was in the rear, reached by a narrow court, and Jurgis saw a light in the window and heard something frying as he passed; he knocked, half expecting that Ona would answer.
16 Poor Marija could not have been more dumfounded had the woman knocked her over the head; at first she could not believe what she heard, and then she grew furious and swore that she would come anyway, that her place belonged to her.
17 They knew, as an abstract proposition, that in matters of business all men are to be accounted liars; but they could not but have been influenced by all they had heard from the eloquent agent, and were quite persuaded that the house was something they had run a risk of losing by their delay.
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