1 All this was fair play, they felt.
2 Every one felt it, sooner or later, and then it was all up with him, at least for that sort of work.
3 Then Jurgis covered his face with his hands, for there were tears in his eyes, and he felt like a fool.
4 Jurgis had, alas, very little time to see his baby; he never felt the chains about him more than just then.
5 Marija felt, so to speak, that she had her hand on the throttle, and the neighborhood was vocal with her rejoicings.
6 This was in truth not living; it was scarcely even existing, and they felt that it was too little for the price they paid.
7 When it was over, the soul of Jurgis was a song, for he had met the enemy and conquered, and felt himself the master of his fate.
8 And there were hundreds who looked and felt just like him, and who had been wandering about Packingtown for months begging for work.
9 Jurgis was even glad that he had not seen the place before meeting with his triumph, for he felt that the size of it would have overwhelmed him.
10 Before the carcass was admitted here, however, it had to pass a government inspector, who sat in the doorway and felt of the glands in the neck for tuberculosis.
11 He felt like fighting now himself; and when the Irish delegate of the butcher-helpers' union came to him a second time, he received him in a far different spirit.
12 The men upon the killing beds felt also the effects of the slump which had turned Marija out; but they felt it in a different way, and a way which made Jurgis understand at last all their bitterness.
13 Jurgis could be very obstinate when he wanted to, and he was in this case, much to the dismay of the women, who felt that a man-doctor was an impropriety, and that the matter really belonged to them.
14 Jurgis felt quite proud of this good luck till he got home and met Jonas, who had taken the leader aside and whispered to him, offering to vote three times for four dollars, which offer had been accepted.
15 Then there were more outcries and threatening, until at last Jurgis had a vision of a pair of elephantine legs disappearing through the trap door, and felt the house shake as Madame Haupt started to walk.
16 Their good luck, they felt, had given them the right to think about a home; and sitting out on the doorstep that summer evening, they held consultation about it, and Jurgis took occasion to broach a weighty subject.
17 The very first Sunday they had all been taken to mass; and poor as they were, Elzbieta had felt it advisable to invest a little of her resources in a representation of the babe of Bethlehem, made in plaster, and painted in brilliant colors.
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