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Updated: June 3, 2025
He caught her hand in his, and began to clasp it frantically, calling: "Look at me! Answer me! It is Jurgis come back don't you hear me?" There was the faintest quivering of the eyelids, and he called again in frenzy: "Ona! Ona!" Then suddenly her eyes opened one instant.
And so, in sheer terror, the orchestra would strike up again, and Marija would return to her place and take up her task. She bore all the burden of the festivities now. Ona was kept up by her excitement, but all of the women and most of the men were tired the soul of Marija was alone unconquered.
Half invalid as she was, Ona would do herself harm by walking in the rain and cold when she ought to have ridden; they bought literally nothing but food and still they could not keep alive on fifty dollars a month. They might have done it, if only they could have gotten pure food, and at fair prices; or if only they had known what to get if they had not been so pitifully ignorant!
It is difficult to convey in words all that this meant to Ona; it seemed such a slight offense, and the punishment was so out of all proportion, that neither she nor any one else ever connected the two.
The agony was almost over he was going to find out; and he clenched his hands in his pockets as he strode, following his flying desire, almost at a run. Ona the baby the family the house he would know the truth about them all! And he was coming to the rescue he was free again! His hands were his own, and he could help them, he could do battle for them against the world.
It was true, it was true, that here in this huge city, with its stores of heaped-up wealth, human creatures might be hunted down and destroyed by the wild-beast powers of nature, just as truly as ever they were in the days of the cave men! Ona was now making about thirty dollars a month, and Stanislovas about thirteen.
He did not drink or fight, because he was thinking all the time of Ona; and for the rest, he was a quiet, steady man, who did what he was told to, did not lose his temper often, and when he did lose it made the offender anxious that he should not lose it again.
He wanted to know what was going on at the meetings, and to be able to take part in them, and so he began to look about him, and to try to pick up words. The children, who were at school, and learning fast, would teach him a few; and a friend loaned him a little book that had some in it, and Ona would read them to him.
Kowé! kowé! n'andambwi, M'vula léru, korolé ko okwé, Waie, ona, kordi, mvula! He cannot translate it as it is pure Manganja, but with the exception of the first line which relates to a little song-bird with a beautiful note, it is a mere reiteration "rain will surely come to-day." Crosses the Loangwa. Distressing march. The king-hunter. Great hunger. Christmas feast necessarily postponed.
That was a bid, so Marija reported, after consulting her friend; and then there was an anxious conference at home. The work was done in one of the cellars, and Jurgis did not want Ona to work in such a place; but then it was easy work, and one could not have everything. So in the end Ona, with a ten-dollar bill burning a hole in her palm, had another interview with the forelady.
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