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[2383] I had stopped looking at him.
[2384] I had got used to him.
[2385] I was
thinking of him, trying to understand, you can't do that and
look at the same time.
[2386] I did not even see him go.
[2387] Oh he did not
vanish, after the fashion of a ghosy [place = overwritten] t, no, I heard him, the clank
when he took out his watch, the satisfied thumb [place = overwritten] p of the umbrella
on the floor, the right about rightabout, the rapid steps towards
the door, its soft closing and finally, I am sorry to, [place = margin left] [₰]say, a gay
and lively whistle dying away.
[2388] What have I omitted?
[2389] Little things,
nothings, which will come back to me later nothings. They will
come back to me later,and make me see more clearly what has happen-
ed and say, Ah if I had only known then, now it is too late.
[2390] Yes,
little by little I shall see him as he just has been, or as he
should have been for me to be able to say, yet again, Too late,
too late.
[2391] There's feeling for you.
[2392] Or he is perhaps just the first
of a series of visitors, all different.
[2393] They are going to relay
one another, and they are numerous.
[2394] To-morr [place = margin left] o[⁁]w perhaps he will be
wearing leggings, riding-breeches and a check cap, with a whip in
his hand to make up for the umbrella and a horse-shoe in his
button-hole.
[2395] All the people I have ever caught a glimpse of, at
close quarters or at a distance, can [place = margin left] may file past from now on, that
is obvious.
[2396] There may even be women and children, I have caught
a glimpse of a fe w few, they will all be armed with something to
lean on and rummage in [place = margin left] my[⁁] things with, they will all give me a clout
on the head to begin with and then spend the rest of the day
glaring at me in anger and disgust.
[2397] I shall have to revise my
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