Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Footfalls / Pas

MS-UoR-1552-4

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[0200] M discovered facing front at R.

[0201] Pause.

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M
[0202] Appendix [place = supralinear] Sequel: [0203] some ten years [place = supralinear] a little later, when she was quite
forgotten, she began -
[0204] (Pause.) [0205] Some few years [place = supralinear] A little later,
when it [place = margin left] it was all as though it [place = supralinear] she had never been, she had [place = inline] it
never been, she began to walk.
[0206] (Pause.) [0207] At nightfall.

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[0208] (Pause.) [0209] Slip out [place = supralinear] and into the little church by the south
door, always closed [place = supralinear] locked at that hour, and walk up and down [place = inline] ,
the corresponding arm [place = margin left] up & down, His poor arm.
[0210] (Pause.) [0211] Sometimes she would
halt, as one frozen by some motion [place = supralinear] phantom of the mind, and
stand stock still till she could move on again [place = supralinear] pass on [place = margin left] move again..
[0212] But
many also were the evenings when the pacing continued unbroken, till she vanished [place = supralinear] she paced without pause up & down, up & down, before vanishing
the way she had come.

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[0213] (Pause.) [0214] No sound of course. [0215] (Pause.) [0216] None at least to
be heard.
[0217] (Pause.) [0218] The appearance [place = supralinear] semblance? [0219] (Pause. [0220] Begins
pacing.
[0222] After one [place = supralinear] 2 length [place = inline] s halts facing front at L [place = overwritten] R.
[0223] Pause.) [0228] Grey rather than white, [0224] Faint, but by no
means invisible, in a certain light.
[0225] (Pause.) [place = margin left] [0226] Given [place = supralinear] Granted the right light. [0227] (Pause.) [0228] Grey
rather than white, a light shade of grey.
[0229] (Pause.)
[0230] Ragged [place = supralinear] Tattered. [0231] (Pause.) [0232] A tangle of rags [place = supralinear] tatters. [0233] (Pause.) [0234] A faint
tangle of pale grey rags [place = supralinear] tatters.
[0235] (Pause.) [0236] Watch it - (Pause.)

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Segment 5

[place = margin left] 1 [place = overwritten] 2

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Segment 6

[0236] Watch her pass before a [place = supralinear] the candelabrum, how the [place = supralinear] its flames,
the [place = supralinear] ir light of the flames...like moon through [place = supralinear] passing cloud.

[0236|001] (Pause.) [0236|002] Or mist. [0237] (Pause.) [0238] Thus not long [place = supralinear] soon [place = supralinear] then h [place = overwritten] after having
gone, as though never been [place = supralinear] there, began to walk, along the
south transept, up and down, at nightfall.
[] [place = margin left] up & down, up & down, His that poor arm.
[place = margin left] [0239] (Pause.) [0240] At nightfall. [0241] (Pause.)
[0241|001] Nightfall. [0241|002] (Pause.) [0242] That is to say, at certain seasons
ot [place = overwritten] f the year, during evensong [place = supralinear] Vespers.
[0243] (Pause.) [0244] Necessarily.

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[0245] (Pause. [0246] Starts pacing. [0247] [place = supralinear] After 1 length Halts facing front after four steps [place = inline] at L.
[0248] Pause.) [0249] Mrs Winter, whom the reader will remember,
Mrs Winter, one autumn Sunday evening, on sitting down
with her daughter to supper with her daughter after
worship, after a few half-hearted mouthfuls laid down
her knife and fork and bowed her head.
[0249|001] (Pause.) [0250] What
is it, Mother, said the daughter, a very strange girl,
though scarcely a girl any more...(Brokenly.)

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[place = margin left] 4/7 [place = overwritten] 1

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Segment 9

[0250] Dread-
fully unhappy [place = supralinear] -...
[0251] ( [place = supralinear] Pause. [0252] Normal voice.) [0253] What is it, Mother, are
you not feeling yourself?
[0255] Mrs W [place = margin left] (doubleyoo) did not at once reply.
[0256] But finally, raising her head and fixing Emily [place = supralinear] Amy - the
daughter's given name, as the reader will remember -
fixing Emily [place = supralinear] Amy full in the et [place = overwritten] ye, she said - (pause) -
she murmured, Emily [place = supralinear] Amy, did you notice anything [place = supralinear] ... strange [place = supralinear] unusual [place = supralinear] strange in
church this evening
[place = supralinear] at evensong?
[0257] Emily [place = supralinear] Amy: No, Mother, I did not.

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[0258] Mrs W: Perhaps it was just my fancy. [0259] Emily [place = supralinear] Amy: Just what
exactly, Mother, did you perhaps fancy it was?
[0260] (Pause.)
[0261] Just what exactly, Mother, did you perhaps fancy it
was you saw [place = supralinear] noticed.
[0263] Mrs W: You noticed nothing unusual [place = supralinear] strange?
[0264] Emily: No, Mother, I did not, to put it mildly. [0265] Mrs W:

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[0265] Mrs W: What do you mean, Emily, to put it mildly, what
can you possibly mean, Emily, to put it mildly?
[0266] Emily [place = supralinear] Amy:
I mean, Mother, that to say I noticed nothing unusual [place = supralinear] strange is
indeed to put it mildly.
[0267] For I noticed nothing of any
kind, unusual [place = supralinear] strange or otherwise.
[0268] I saw nothing, heard nothing,

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it
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up & down, His poor arm.
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move again.
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[0226] Given [place = supralinear] Granted the right light. [0227] (Pause.)
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up & down, up & down, His that poor arm. [place = margin left] [0239] (Pause.) [0240] At nightfall.
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(doubleyoo)
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