1 "Ostrinski speaks Lithuanian," said the other.
2 Ostrinski was a Pole, about fifty years of age.
3 Then Ostrinski in turn explained his circumstances.
4 "Perhaps tomorrow we can do better," said Ostrinski.
5 All of these things Ostrinski explained, as also the principles of the party.
6 Jurgis had breakfast with Ostrinski and his family, and then he went home to Elzbieta.
7 Ostrinski himself had twice been in jail, but he had been young then, and had not cared.
8 Ostrinski's home was in the Ghetto district, where he had two rooms in the basement of a tenement.
9 Ostrinski explained the organization of the party, the machinery by which the proletariat was educating itself.
10 Ostrinski would take him to the next meeting of the branch local, and introduce him, and he might join the party.
11 Comrade Ostrinski was a little man, scarcely up to Jurgis's shoulder, wizened and wrinkled, very ugly, and slightly lame.
12 Then he went and told Elzbieta, and also, late as it was, he paid a visit to Ostrinski to let him know of his good fortune.
13 Ostrinski asked where he lived, offering to walk in that direction; and so he had to explain once more that he was without a home.
14 The Socialists were organized in every civilized nation; it was an international political party, said Ostrinski, the greatest the world had ever known.
15 It would not do, Ostrinski explained, for the proletariat of one nation to achieve the victory, for that nation would be crushed by the military power of the others; and so the Socialist movement was a world movement, an organization of all mankind to establish liberty and fraternity.