1 So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed.
2 He told them cruel stories of people who had been done to death in this "buying a home" swindle.
3 It was quite touching, the zeal of people to see that his health and happiness were provided for.
4 These were frightful sums, but then they were in America, where people talked about such without fear.
5 The older people have dances from home, strange and complicated steps which they execute with grave solemnity.
6 The forelady had to come up to a certain standard herself, and could not stop for sick people, Jadvyga explained.
7 The house was one of a whole row that was built by a company which existed to make money by swindling poor people.
8 He would work all day, and all night, too, if need be; he would never rest until the house was paid for and his people had a home.
9 Jurgis was at a loss to understand why, with wages as they were, so many of the people of this district should live the way they did.
10 It employed thirty thousand men; it supported directly two hundred and fifty thousand people in its neighborhood, and indirectly it supported half a million.
11 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.
12 Grandmother Majauszkiene had lived in the midst of misfortune so long that it had come to be her element, and she talked about starvation, sickness, and death as other people might about weddings and holidays.
13 The marriage would have been at once, if they had had their way; but this would mean that they would have to do without any wedding feast, and when they suggested this they came into conflict with the old people.
14 This held water, and all summer it stood there, with the near-by soil draining into it, festering and stewing in the sun; and then, when winter came, somebody cut the ice on it, and sold it to the people of the city.
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 The saloon-keeper stood in with all the big politics men in the district; and when you had once found out what it meant to get into trouble with such people, you would know enough to pay what you were told to pay and shut up.
17 Then, tumbled out of the cars without ceremony, they were no better off than before; they stood staring down the vista of Dearborn Street, with its big black buildings towering in the distance, unable to realize that they had arrived, and why, when they said "Chicago," people no longer pointed in some direction, but instead looked perplexed, or laughed, or went on without paying any attention.
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