"Madame Haupt was pointing her cooking-fork at Jurgis persuasively; but her words were more than he could bear. He flung up his hands with a gesture of despair and turned and started away. "It's no use," he exclaimed—but suddenly he heard the woman's voice behind him again."
Description:Chapter Nineteen in Upton Sinclair's original serial for Appeal to Reason, the unexpurgated version of what became "The Jungle."
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