MS-HRC-SB-4-3

[2159] mattress, writhing and crying out, in the hope perhaps she
would take pity on him and come and comfort him and dry his
tears, as on the day when he had demanded his hat. [2160] No, it was
not that, it was without malice he cried, writhed and beat his b
breast, for she made no attempt to stop ^{[place = margin left] him[⁁]} and even left the room
if it went on too long for her liking.

[2161] Then, all alone and unobser
unobesrved ^{[place = margin left] [  ]} , he continued to behave as if beside himself, wj ^{[place = overwritten] h}ich
is proof positive, is it not, that he was disinterested, unless
of course he suspected her of having stopped outside the door, to
listen. [2162] And when he grew calm again at last he mourned the long
immunity he had lost, from shelter, charity and human tenderness.
[2163] And he even carried his inconsequence to the lenght ^{[place = margin left] [  ]} of woba won-
dering what right anyone had to take care of him.

[2164] In a word most
evil days, for Macmann. [2165] For Moll too probably, naturally, ad-
mittedly. [2166] It was at this time she lost her tooth. It fell unaided
from the socket, happily in the dat ^{[place = overwritten] y}time, so that she was able to
recover it and put it away in a safe place. [2167] Macmann said to
himself, when she told him; him, There was a time she would have
made me a present of it, or at least shown it to me.

[2168] But a little
later he said, firstly, To have told me, when she need not have,
is a mark of confidence and affection, [2169] and secondly, But I would
have known in any case, when she opened her mouth to speak or
smile, [2170] and finally, But she does not speak or smile any more.
[2171] One morning early a man whom he had never seen came and told
him that Moll was dead. [2172] There's one out of the way at least.