1 The agent was as bland as ever.
2 And so they went and told the agent that they were ready to make the agreement.
3 When they ventured to hint at this, the agent's reply was that the purchasers would be moving in shortly.
4 It proved to be a long mile and a half, but they walked it, and half an hour or so later the agent put in an appearance.
5 All of this, however, did not chill their ardor as much as might have been expected, because of the volubility of the agent.
6 The agent explained that the houses were built that way, as the purchasers generally preferred to finish the basements to suit their own taste.
7 The agent was most polite, and explained that that was the usual formula; that it was always arranged that the property should be merely rented.
8 It was all brand-new, so the agent told them, but he talked so incessantly that they were quite confused, and did not have time to ask many questions.
9 And so Teta Elzbieta laid the money on the table, and the agent picked it up and counted it, and then wrote them a receipt for it and passed them the deed.
10 Jurgis was sure that they had been swindled, and were ruined; and he tore his hair and cursed like a madman, swearing that he would kill the agent that very night.
11 And then again, when they went to pay their January's installment on the house, the agent terrified them by asking them if they had had the insurance attended to yet.
12 She expected the agent to fly into a passion, but he was, to her bewilderment, as ever imperturbable; he even offered to go and get a lawyer for her, but she declined this.
13 He had said it again in New York, when the smooth-spoken agent had taken them in hand and made them pay such high prices, and almost prevented their leaving his place, in spite of their paying.
14 In the morning, of course, most of them had to go to work, the packing houses would not stop for their sorrows; but by seven o'clock Ona and her stepmother were standing at the door of the office of the agent.
15 As a matter of fact there was just a little uncertainty as to whether there was a single house left; for the agent had taken so many people to see them, and for all he knew the company might have parted with the last.
16 They had a hard time on the passage; there was an agent who helped them, but he proved a scoundrel, and got them into a trap with some officials, and cost them a good deal of their precious money, which they clung to with such horrible fear.
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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