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[0762] your return, patiently, and you too must be patient.[0763] It was
swarming with them, grandpa, grandma, little mother and the eight
or nine brats.[0764] With their eyes glued to the slits ^{[place = supralinear] and} they followed ^{[place = supralinear] observed witnessed [place = margin left] surveyed}
my efforts ^{[place = supralinear] struggles}, their hearts going out to me .[0765] This yard so long deserted
was no ^{[place = inline] w} enlived, tha by me enlivened, ^{[place = supralinear] for them,} by me.[0766] So we turned, in our
different orbits, they I without, they within.

[0767] At night, keeping
watch by turns, they on ^{[place = overwritten] b}served me with the help of a searchlight.
[0768] So the seasons came and went.[0769] The children grew in stature, the
periods of Ptomaine paled ^{[place = supralinear] grew pale}, the two old ones ^{[place = supralinear] ancients} glowered at each
other, saying ^{[place = supralinear] to themselves}, I'll bury you yet, y ^{[place = overwritten] Y}ou'll bury me yet.[0770] Since my
arrival they had a subject of conversation, and even of discussion,
the same as of yore ^{[place = supralinear] old}, at the time of my departure ^{[place = supralinear] my setting forth}, perhaps even an
interest in life, the same as of yore ^{[place = supralinear] old}.

[0771] Time hung less heavy on
their hands.[0772] What about throwing him a few scraps?[0773] No, no, it might
upset him.[0774] They did not want to check the impetus that was sweeping
me towards thel ^{[place = overwritten] m}.[0775] You wouldn't know him![0776] True, and yet somehow one ^{[place = supralinear] it can only be he}
does ^{[place = margin left] you can't mistake him}.[0777] They who in the ordinary way never answered when spoken to,
my parents, my wife, she who had chosen ^{[place = supralinear] fastened on} me, rather than ^{[place = supralinear] on} one of
her suitors.[0778] A few more summers and he'll be in our l ^{[place = overwritten] m}idst.

[0779] Where
am I going to put him?[0780] In the basement?[0781] Perhaps after am ^{[place = overwritten] l}l I am
merely ^{[place = supralinear] simply} in the basement.[0782] What possesses him to be stopping all the
time?[0783] Oh he was always like that, ever since he was a tiny tot ^{[place = supralinear] mite},
always stopping, wasn't he, Granny?

[0784] Yes indeed, never easy, always
stopping.[0785] According to Mahhod I never got there, that is to say
they all died first, the whole ten or elevent of that ^{[place = supralinear] them}, carried off
by sausage poisoning, in excruciating pain great pain ^{[place = supralinear] agony}.[0786] Incommoded
first by their shrieks, then by the stench of decompos ^{[place = supralinear] it}ion, I had
turned back.

[0787] But let us not go too ^{[place = supralinear] not so} fast, otherwise we'll never
arrive ^{[place = supralinear] get there [place = margin left] arrive}.[0788] It's no longer I in any case.[0789] Will he ever arrive ^{[place = supralinear] reach us}, at his
present rate ^{[place = supralinear] speed} of going?[0790] He looks as if he had slowed down, since
last year.[0791] Oh the last rounds ^{[place = supralinear] laps} won't take him long.[0792] My missing leg
didn't seem to affect them.[0793] Perhaps it was already l ^{[place = overwritten] m}issing when
I left.[0794] What about throwing him a sponge?[0795] No, no, it might upset
him.In the evening, after supper, while my wife kept her eye on

[0796] In the evening, after supper, while my wife kept her eye on