The midwife Jurgis finds is crabby and constantly negotiates the price of her services. The woman goes upstairs in Aniele's house and tries to help Ona, but she emerges soon afterward, covered in blood and saying that nothing can be done. The baby has died, and Ona is very close to death at this point.
Jurgis ran upstairs and grabbed her hand. He screams for her to open her eyes. She opens them wide for one instant, and a flicker of recognition flashes in them. Jurgis can see it. She then dies. Jurgis is out of his mind with grief. Just then, the children come home from selling papers, and he takes their money and runs away to buy himself some whiskey.
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