1 But he answers her again: "Leave it to me; leave it to me."
2 Jurgis was ready to leave the hospital at the end of two weeks.
3 This would leave him four dollars extra each week, an unthinkable sum for him.
4 Jurgis turned white, and so weak at the knees that he could hardly leave his cell.
5 So it was finally decided that two more of the children would have to leave school.
6 Now Charlie had got leave from college, and had gone away in his automobile on the next best thing to a honeymoon.
7 And so, at last, when the meeting broke up, and the audience started to leave, poor Jurgis was in an agony of uncertainty.
8 Raw, naked terror possessed him, a maddening passion that would never leave him, and that wore him down more quickly than the actual want of food.
9 And he was a faithful man, too; he was a man you might leave alone for a month, if only you had made him understand what you wanted him to do in the meantime.
10 Then Marija and Jonas were between them to take a third share in the house, which would leave only eight dollars a month for Jurgis to contribute to the payment.
11 The packers used to leave the creek that way, till every now and then the surface would catch on fire and burn furiously, and the fire department would have to come and put it out.
12 Each crisis would leave Jurgis more and more frightened, more disposed to distrust Elzbieta's consolations, and to believe that there was some terrible thing about all this that he was not allowed to know.
13 It was arranged that they should leave the following spring, and meantime Jurgis sold himself to a contractor for a certain time, and tramped nearly four hundred miles from home with a gang of men to work upon a railroad in Smolensk.
14 To get up and go away was to give up, to acknowledge defeat, to leave the strange family in possession; and Jurgis might have sat shivering in the rain for hours before he could do that, had it not been for the thought of his family.
15 In his manhood he worked in a cotton mill, but then a coughing fell upon him, and he had to leave; out in the country the trouble disappeared, but he has been working in the pickle rooms at Durham's, and the breathing of the cold, damp air all day has brought it back.
16 This was more cruel yet for Ona, who ought to have stayed home and nursed him, the doctor said, for her own health as well as the baby's; but Ona had to go to work, and leave him for Teta Elzbieta to feed upon the pale blue poison that was called milk at the corner grocery.
17 Meantime Jurgis, who was of a practical temper, was helping himself at the bar; and the first policeman, who had laid out his man, joined him, handing out several more bottles, and filling his pockets besides, and then, as he started to leave, cleaning off all the balance with a sweep of his club.
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