MS-OSU-RARE-29-6

[1369] Clov goes to the bins, lifts the lid of Nagg's, looks
into it, stoops over it. [1370] Pause. [1371] He straightens up.

[1372] He's asleep.

[1373] Wake him.

[1377] He doesn't want to listen to your story.

[1378] I'll give him a bon-bon.

[1382] He wants a sugar-plum.

[1383] He'll get a sugar-plum.

[1387] It's a deal. [1388] (He goes towards the door. [1389] Nagg's hands appear,
gripping the rim. [1390] Then the head emerges. [1391] Clov reaches door,
turns.) [1392] Do you believe in the life to come.^?

[1393] Mine was always that. [1394] (Exit Clov.) [1395] Got him that time!

[1397] I'm listening.

[1398] Scoundrel! [1399] What made ^{Why did} you engender me?

[1400] I didn't know.

[1401] What? [1402] What didn't you know?

[1403] That it'd be you. [1404] (Pause.) [1405] You'll give me a sugar-plum.^?

[1406] After the audition.

[1407] You swear?

[1408] Yes.

[1409] On what?

[1410] My honour.
[1411] Pai^use. [1412] They laugh.

[1413] Two.

[1414] One.

[1415] One for me and one for -

[1416] One! [1417] Silence! [1418] (Pause.) [1419] Where was I? [1420] (Pause. [1421] Gloomy.)
[1422] It's finishes^d, we're finished. [1423] (Pause.) [1424] It's n^Nearly
finished. [1425] (Pause.) [1426] There'll be no more speech. [1427] (Pause.)
[1428] A drip of water in my head, ever since the fontanelles.
[1429] (Stifled hilarity of Nagg.) [1430] It always crashes on the same
spot. [1431] (Pause.) [1432] Perhaps it's a little va^ein. [1433] (Pause.) [1434] A
little artery. [1435] (Pause. [1436] Mot^re animated.) [1437] Enough of that, it's
story time, where was I? [1438] '⁽Pause. [1439] Narrative tone.) [1440] The man