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[3607] (wild gestures, incoherent xxx xxx words.[3608] Finally.) [3609] Why will you never let me sleep?

[3610] I felt lonely.

[3611] I was dreaming I was happy.

[3612] That passed the time.

[3613] I was dreaming that -

[3613|001] (violently.) [3614] Don't tell me! [3615] (Silence.) [3616] I wonder is he really blind.

[3616|001] Blind? [3617] Who?

[3620] Pozzo.

[3621] Blind?

[3622] He told us he was blind.

[3623] Well what about it?

[3624] It seemed to me he saw us.

[3625] You dreamt it. [3626] (Pause.) [3627] Let's go. [3628] We can't. [3629] Ah! [3630] (Pause.) [3631] Are you sure it wasn't him?

[3632] Who?

[3633] Godot.

[3634] But who?

[3635] Pozzo.

[3636] Not at all! [3636|001] (Less sure.) [3637] Not at all. [3637|001] (Still less sure.) [3639] Not at all.

[3640] I suppose I might as well get up. [3641] (He gets

[3641] up painfully.) [3642] Ow! [3642|001] Didi!

[3643] I don't know what to think any more.

[3644] My feet! [3645] (He sits down and tries to take off his boots.) [3646] Help me!

[3647] Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? [3648] Am I sleeping now? [3649] To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day? [3650] That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? [3651] That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? [3652] Probably. [3653] But in all that what truth will there be? [3654] (Estragon having struggled with his boots in vain, is dozing off again.[3655] Vladimir looks at him.) [3656] He'll know nothing. [3657] He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. [3658] (Pause.) [3659] Astride of a grave, and a difficult birth. [3660] Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps. [3661] We have time to grow old. [3662] The air is full of

[3662] our cries. [3663] (He listens.) [3664] But habit is a great deadener. [3665] (He looks again at Estragon.) [3666] At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. [3667] (Pause.) [3668] I can't go on! [3669] (Pause.) [3670] What have I said?

[3675] Mister... [3676] (Vladimir turns.) [3677] Mister Albert...

[3678] Off we go again. [3679] (Pause.) [3681] Do you not recognize me?

[3682] No Sir.

[3683] It wasn't you came yesterday?

[3684] No Sir.

[3685] This is your first time?

[3686] Yes Sir.

[3688] You have a message from M^r Godot?

[3689] Yes Sir.

[3690] He won't come this evening.

[3691] No Sir.

[3692] But he'll come to-morrow.

[3693] Yes Sir.

[3694] Without fail.

[3695] Yes Sir.

[3697] Did you meet anyone?

[3698] No Sir.

[3699] Two other... (he hesitates)... men?

[3700] I didn't see anyone, Sir.

[3701|001] What does he do, M^r Godot? [3701|002] (Silence.) [3701|003] Do you hear me?

[3701|004] Yes Sir.

[3701|005] Well?

[3701|006] He does nothing, Sir.

[3702] How is your brother?

[3703] He's sick, Sir.

[3704] Perhaps it was he came yesterday.

[3705] I don't know, Sir.

[3706|001] (Softly) [3707] Has he a beard, M^r Godot?

[3708] Yes Sir.

[3709] Fair or... (he hesitates)... or black?

[3711] I think it's white, Sir.

[3713] Christ have mercy on us!

[3715] What am I to tell M^r Godot, Sir.

[3716] Tell him... (he hesitates)... tell him you saw me and that... (he hesitates)... that you saw me. [3717] (Pause [3718] Vladimir advances, the Boy recoils. Vladimir halts, the Boy halts. [3718|001] With sudden violence.) [3719] You're sure you saw me, you won't come and tell me to-morrow that you never saw me!