1 The new hands were here by the thousands.
2 Some hold their hands out stiffly, some drop them loosely at their sides.
3 The climax of it is a furious prestissimo, at which the couples seize hands and begin a mad whirling.
4 Then Jurgis covered his face with his hands, for there were tears in his eyes, and he felt like a fool.
5 The guests form a great ring, locking hands, and, when the music starts up, begin to move around in a circle.
6 All of this Ona sat watching, from a corner of the room, twisting her hands together, meantime, in a fever of fright.
7 There were new white cotton gloves upon her hands, and as she stood staring about her she twisted them together feverishly.
8 Then he gave a sigh of satisfaction, and rose and shook hands with them all, still as smooth and polite as at the beginning.
9 Jurgis sat with his hands clenched and beads of perspiration on his forehead, and there was a great lump in Ona's throat, choking her.
10 Your hands are slippery, and your knife is slippery, and you are toiling like mad, when somebody happens to speak to you, or you strike a bone.
11 Some do not dance anything at all, but simply hold each other's hands and allow the undisciplined joy of motion to express itself with their feet.
12 When he came out again it was in company with a very stout gentleman in shirt sleeves and an apron, clasping Jonas by both hands and laughing hilariously.
13 It was an agonizing moment, but she sat in the chair, her hands clenched like death, and made a fearful effort, summoning all her powers, and gasped out her purpose.
14 Marija goes on the warpath straight off, without even the preliminary of a good cursing, and when she is pulled off it is with the coat collars of two villains in her hands.
15 His companion explained the situation, and the lawyer took the paper and began to read it, while Jurgis stood clutching the desk with knotted hands, trembling in every nerve.
16 There are learned people who can tell you out of the statistics that beef-boners make forty cents an hour, but, perhaps, these people have never looked into a beef-boner's hands.
17 With a most wonderful rush he comes to the end of the tune, and flings up his hands and staggers back exhausted; and with a final shout of delight the dancers fly apart, reeling here and there, bringing up against the walls of the room.
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