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[1106] clock flanked in its r ^{[place = overwritten] t}urn by a crucifix hanging from a nail. [1108] The
clock, being the lowest of the three, had to remain in the middle,
and the lamp and crucifix could not change places because of the
nail from which the latter was hung. [1109] She stood with her forehead
and her hands pressed against the wall, until she might turn up
the wick. [1110] She turned it up and put on the yellow globe which a
large hole defaced. [1111] Seeing Sapo she first thought he was her
daughter. [1112] Then her thoughts flew to the absent one.

[1113] She set down
the lamp on the table and the outer world went out. [1114] She sat down,
emptied out the lentils on the table and began to sort them. [1115] So
that there were soon ^{[place = margin left] [  ]} two heaps on the table, one big heap getting
smaller and one small heap getting bigger. [1116] But suddenly with a
furious gesture she swept the two together, annihilating thus in
less than a second the work of two or three minutes. [1117] Then she went
away and came back with a saucepan.

[1118] It won't kill them, she said,
and with the heel of her hand she brought the lentils to the edge
of the table and over the edge into the saucepan, as if all that
mattered was not to be killed, [1119] but so clumsily and with such nervous
haste that av a great number fell wide of the pan to the ground.
[1120] Then she took up the lamp and went out, to fetch wood perhaps, or
a lump of fat bacon.

[1121] Now that it was dark again in the kitchen
the dark outside gradually lightened and Sapo, his eye against the
window-pane, was able to discern certain shapes, including that
of Big Lambert stamping the ground. [1122] To stop in the middle of a
tedious and perhaps futile task was something that Sapo [ ^{[place = margin left] stet}] could
readily understand. [1123] For a great number of tasks of are of this
kind, without a doubt, and the only way to end them is to