1 He has been only six months in America, and the change has not done him good.
2 He told them cruel stories of people who had been done to death in this "buying a home" swindle.
3 What made all this the more painful was that it was so hard on the few that had really done their best.
4 So there was nothing to be done but to trust it to the women, with Szedvilas, who promised to go with them.
5 The family, wild with terror, sent for a doctor, and paid half a dollar to be told that there was nothing to be done.
6 Afterward they went outside, wandering about among the mazes of buildings in which was done the work auxiliary to this great industry.
7 All night long this had been going on, and now the pens were full; by tonight they would all be empty, and the same thing would be done again.
8 The work was done in one of the cellars, and Jurgis did not want Ona to work in such a place; but then it was easy work, and one could not have everything.
9 There being no more to be done that day, the shop was left under the care of Lucija, and her husband sallied forth to show his friends the sights of Packingtown.
10 When there was nothing else to be done with a thing, they first put it into a tank and got out of it all the tallow and grease, and then they made it into fertilizer.
11 In innumerable ways such as this, the traveler found that somebody had been busied to make smooth his paths through the world, and to let him know what had been done for him.
12 It must always be done at night, so that Jurgis could go along; and even if it were only a pepper cruet, or half a dozen glasses for ten cents, that was enough for an expedition.
13 This inspector wore a blue uniform, with brass buttons, and he gave an atmosphere of authority to the scene, and, as it were, put the stamp of official approval upon the things which were done in Durham's.
14 Unlike the place they had left, all this work was done on one floor; and instead of there being one line of carcasses which moved to the workmen, there were fifteen or twenty lines, and the men moved from one to another of these.
15 One day a man slipped and hurt his leg; and that afternoon, when the last of the cattle had been disposed of, and the men were leaving, Jurgis was ordered to remain and do some special work which this injured man had usually done.
16 To the two who stood watching while the darkness swallowed it up, it seemed a dream of wonder, with its talc of human energy, of things being done, of employment for thousands upon thousands of men, of opportunity and freedom, of life and love and joy.
17 And when at last he had questioned until there was no more questioning to be done, and the time came for them to make up their minds, and either close the bargain or reject it, it was all that poor Teta Elzbieta could do to keep from bursting into tears.
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