1 All these things were going on now, and the family was helpless with dismay.
2 Over this document the family pored long, while Ona spelled out its contents.
3 All his thoughts were there; he accepted the family because it was a part of Ona.
4 It was the kind of thing the man of the family had to decide and carry through, he told himself.
5 Among these importunate signs was one that had caught the attention of the family by its pictures.
6 The nest which had been advertised had not included feathers for quite so many birds as there were in this family.
7 It would be a strange thing if a man like him could not support the family, with the help of the board of Jonas and Marija.
8 For they had set him to cleaning out the traps; and the family sat round and listened in wonder while he told them what that meant.
9 They would have been married in the beginning, only Mikolas has a father who is drunk all day, and he is the only other man in a large family.
10 Jurgis was so grateful that he paid the half dollar the lawyer asked without winking an eyelash, and then rushed home to tell the news to the family.
11 The room is about thirty feet square, with whitewashed walls, bare save for a calendar, a picture of a race horse, and a family tree in a gilded frame.
12 Jurgis was not able to figure, except it was a very simple sum, but Ona was like lightning at such things, and she worked out the problem for the family.
13 These last were to be driven into the walls of the kitchen and the bedrooms, to hang things on; and there was a family discussion as to the place where each one was to be driven.
14 In the meantime there was going on in another corner of the room an anxious conference between Teta Elzbieta and Dede Antanas, and a few of the more intimate friends of the family.
15 They had learned that they would have to pay a rent of nine dollars a month for a flat, and there was no way of doing better, unless the family of twelve was to exist in one or two rooms, as at present.
16 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.
17 The painting of cans being skilled piecework, and paying as much as two dollars a day, Marija burst in upon the family with the yell of a Comanche Indian, and fell to capering about the room so as to frighten the baby almost into convulsions.
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