"There came one of those hysterical crises that had so often dismayed him. Ona sobbed and wept, her fear and anguish building themselves up into long climaxes. Furious gusts of emotion would come sweeping over her, shaking her as the tempest shakes the trees upon the hills; all her frame would quiver and throb with them—it was as if some dreadful thing rose up within her and took possession of her, torturing her, tearing her."
Description:Chapter Fifteen, concluded, in Upton Sinclair's original serial for Appeal to Reason, the unexpurgated version of what became "The Jungle."
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