1 So she stays, and the longer she stays, the more in debt she gets.
2 And they were even going into debt to Tamoszius Kuszleika and letting him impoverish himself.
3 He had not told them, simply because he had supposed they would understand that they had to pay interest upon their debt, as a matter of course.
4 In the latter part of November they hired a hall, and invited all their new acquaintances, who came and left them over a hundred dollars in debt.
5 If he does not, some one else will; and the saloon-keeper, unless he is also an alderman, is apt to be in debt to the big brewers, and on the verge of being sold out.
6 During the early part of the winter the family had had money enough to live and a little over to pay their debts with; but when the earnings of Jurgis fell from nine or ten dollars a week to five or six, there was no longer anything to spare.
7 A young girl comes from abroad, and she doesn't know a word of English, and she gets into a place like this, and when she wants to go the madame shows her that she is a couple of hundred dollars in debt, and takes all her clothes away, and threatens to have her arrested if she doesn't stay and do as she's told.
8 The truth was that she had definitely given up the idea of cleaning anything, under pressure of an attack of rheumatism, which had kept her doubled up in one corner of her room for over a week; during which time eleven of her boarders, heavily in her debt, had concluded to try their chances of employment in Kansas City.