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Updated: May 3, 2025
He offered me money. He begged me he said he loved me. Then he threatened me. He knew all about us, he knew we would starve. He knew your boss he knew Marija's. He would hound us to death, he said then he said if I would if I we would all of us be sure of work always. Then one day he caught hold of me he would not let go he he " "Where was this?" "In the hallway at night after every one had gone.
A dead silence had fallen in the room, and he saw that every one was staring at him. "What's the matter?" he exclaimed again. And then, up in the garret, he heard sounds of wailing, in Marija's voice. He started for the ladder and Aniele seized him by the arm. "No, no!" she exclaimed. "Don't go up there!" "What is it?" he shouted. And the old woman answered him weakly: "It's Antanas. He's dead.
It was the holiday rush that was over, the girls said in answer to Marija's inquiries; after that there was always a slack. Sometimes the factory would start up on half time after a while, but there was no telling it had been known to stay closed until way into the summer.
Elzbieta was glad to have somebody to listen, and she told all their woes what had happened to Ona, and the jail, and the loss of their home, and Marija's accident, and how Ona had died, and how Jurgis could get no work.
No one answered him, they sat staring at him with their pale faces. He cried again: "Well?" And then, by the light of the smoky lamp, he saw Marija who sat nearest him, shaking her head slowly. "Not yet," she said. And Jurgis gave a cry of dismay. "Not yet?" Again Marija's head shook. The poor fellow stood dumfounded. "I don't hear her," he gasped.
And then Tamoszius' face would light up and he would get out his fiddle, tuck it under his chin, and play. And forthwith the soul of him would flame up and become eloquent it was almost an impropriety, for all the while his gaze would be fixed upon Marija's face, until she would begin to turn red and lower her eyes.
The occasion rested heavily upon Marija's broad shoulders it was her task to see that all things went in due form, and after the best home traditions; and, flying wildly hither and thither, bowling every one out of the way, and scolding and exhorting all day with her tremendous voice, Marija was too eager to see that others conformed to the proprieties to consider them herself.
Everybody laughed at them, for Tamoszius was petite and frail, and Marija could have picked him up and carried him off under one arm. But perhaps that was why she fascinated him; the sheer volume of Marija's energy was overwhelming.
Before another month was by, all the working members of his family had union cards, and wore their union buttons conspicuously and with pride. For fully a week they were quite blissfully happy, thinking that belonging to a union meant an end to all their troubles. But only ten days after she had joined, Marija's canning factory closed down, and that blow quite staggered them.
Marija's disturbances did not mean anything, and while she had known only Lithuanian and Polish, they had done no harm, for people only laughed at her and made her cry. But now Marija was able to call names in English, and so she got the woman who made the mistake to disliking her.
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