1 When they ventured to hint at this, the agent's reply was that the purchasers would be moving in shortly.
2 What the hog thought of it, and what he suffered, were not considered; and no more was it with labor, and no more with the purchaser of meat.
3 The agent explained that the houses were built that way, as the purchasers generally preferred to finish the basements to suit their own taste.
4 They had talked about looking at more houses before they made the purchase; but then they did not know where any more were, and they did not know any way of finding out.
5 The customer had desired to purchase an alarm clock, and the boss had shown him two exactly similar, telling him that the price of one was a dollar and of the other a dollar seventy-five.
6 Seeing Teta Elzbieta's evident grief at this news, he added, after some hesitation, that if they really intended to make a purchase, he would send a telephone message at his own expense, and have one of the houses kept.
7 As soon as the birth agony was over, and the wounds of society had been healed, there would be established a simple system whereby each man was credited with his labor and debited with his purchases; and after that the processes of production, exchange, and consumption would go on automatically, and without our being conscious of them, any more than a man is conscious of the beating of his heart.