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[1143] with the head already off, to cut a few last capers before
collapsing. [1144] Pigeons too are less impressionable and sometimes
even struggle, before choking to death. [1145] Mrs Lambert was breathing
hard. [1146] Little devil!^! she cried. [1147] But Sapo was already far away,
tariling ^[  ] his hand in the high waving meadow grasses. [1148] Soon after(^-
wards Lambert, then his son, attracted by the savoury smell,
entered the kitchen.

[1149] Sitting at the table, face to face, their
eyes averted from each other's eyes, they waited. [1150] V^But the woman,
the mother, went to the door and called. [1151] Lizzy!^! she cried, again
and again. [1152] Then she went p^back to her range. [1153] She had seen the
moon. [1154] After a silence Lambert declared, I'll kill Whitey to-morrow.
[1155] Those of course were not the words he used, but that was the mean-
ing.

[1156] But neoⁱther his wife nor his son could approve him, the
former because she would have preferred him to kill Blackey, the
latter because he held that to kill the kids at such an early stage
of their development, eoⁱther of them, it was all the same to him,
would be premature. [1157] But Big Lambert told them to hold their
tongue and went to the corner to fetch the case containing the k
knives, three in number. [1158] All he had to do was to wipe off the
grease and whet, them[^⁁] ^{a little} on one another.

[1159] Mrs Lambert went back to the
door, listened, called. [1160] In the far distance the flock replied.
[1161] D^She's coming, she said. [1162] But a long time passed before she came.
[1163] When the meal was over Edmund went up to bed, so as to toss himself ^masturbate
off[₰] in peace and comfort before his sister joined him, for they
shared the same room. [1164] Not that he was restrained by modesty, when
his sister was there. [1165] Nor was she, when her brother was there.