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Updated: June 16, 2025
She holds her skirt with her hand as she dances, with stately precision, after the manner of the grandes dames. Juozas is driving one of Durham's wagons, and is making big wages. He affects a "tough" aspect, wearing his hat on one side and keeping a cigarette in his mouth all the evening. Then there is Jadvyga Marcinkus, who is also beautiful, but humble.
"She must have meant somewhere else. She " "She said here," insisted Jurgis. "She told me all about you, and how you were, and what you said. Are you sure? You haven't forgotten? You weren't away?" "No, no!" she exclaimed and then came a peevish voice "Jadvyga, you are giving the baby a cold. Shut the door!"
"Why why " he exclaimed. "Two weeks ago. Jadvyga! She told me so the night it snowed, and she could not get home." "There must be some mistake," declared the girl, again; "she didn't come here." He steadied himself by the doorsill; and Jadvyga in her anxiety for she was fond of Ona opened the door wide, holding her jacket across her throat. "Are you sure you didn't misunderstand her?" she cried.
He in turn has clasped his arms tightly around her, as if he would carry her away; and so she dances, and will dance the entire evening, and would dance forever, in ecstasy of bliss. You would smile, perhaps, to see them but you would not smile if you knew all the story. This is the fifth year, now, that Jadvyga has been engaged to Mikolas, and her heart is sick.
In the morning, however, he was up and out nearly an hour before the usual time. Jadvyga Marcinkus lived on the other side of the yards, beyond Halsted Street, with her mother and sisters, in a single basement room for Mikolas had recently lost one hand from blood poisoning, and their marriage had been put off forever.
She must have gone home again with Jadvyga, he said; Jadvyga lived only two blocks from the yards, and perhaps she had been tired. Nothing could have happened to her and even if there had, there was nothing could be done about it until morning. Jurgis turned over in his bed, and was snoring again before the two had closed the door.
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