1 "Ostrinski speaks Lithuanian," said the other.
2 This time it is another sort of a dance, a Lithuanian dance.
3 But his handclasp was hearty, and he spoke in Lithuanian, which warmed Jurgis to him.
4 For the odors of these ghastly charnel houses there may be words in Lithuanian, but there are none in English.
5 "I'm wanted by the police," he said, lowering his voice, though of course their conversation was in Lithuanian.
6 The law says that the rate card shall be on the door of a hotel, but it does not say that it shall be in Lithuanian.
7 In the shop where he worked was a man, a Lithuanian like himself, whom the others spoke of in admiring whispers, because of the mighty feats he was performing.
8 Marija's disturbances did not mean anything, and while she had known only Lithuanian and Polish, they had done no harm, for people only laughed at her and made her cry.
9 About a block away from them there lived another Lithuanian family, consisting of an elderly widow and one grown son; their name was Majauszkis, and our friends struck up an acquaintance with them before long.
10 There was, for instance, a Lithuanian who was a cattle butcher for the plant where Marija had worked, which killed meat for canning only; and to hear this man describe the animals which came to his place would have been worthwhile for a Dante or a Zola.
11 When that personage had developed a will of his own in the matter, Marija had flung up the window of the carriage, and, leaning out, proceeded to tell him her opinion of him, first in Lithuanian, which he did not understand, and then in Polish, which he did.
12 There was a delegate of the butcher-helpers' union who came to see Jurgis to enroll him; and when Jurgis found that this meant that he would have to part with some of his money, he froze up directly, and the delegate, who was an Irishman and only knew a few words of Lithuanian, lost his temper and began to threaten him.