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[1579] so it was very probably the afternoon, very.
[1580] The still air,
though not cold as in winter, seemed without promise or memory
of warmth.
[1581] Incommoded by the rain pouring into his hat through
the crack [place = inline] , Macmann took it off and laid it on his temple, that
is to say turned his head and pressed his cheek to the ground.
[1584] The rain pelted down on his back with
the sound first of a drum, but of in a short time of washing,
as when washing is soused gurgling and squelching in a tub, and
he distinguished clearly and with interest the difference in noise
of the rain falling on him and falling on the earth.
[1584]
For his ear,
which is on the same plane as the cheek or nearly, was glued to
the earth in a way it seldom is in wet weather, and he could hear
the kind of distant roar of the earth drinking and the sighing
of the soaked bowed grasses.
[1585] The idea of punishment came to hs
his mind, addicted it is true to that chimera and probably im-
pressed by the posture of the body and the fingers clenched as
though in torment.
[1586] And without knowing exactly what his sin was
he felt full well that living was not a sufficient atonement for
it or that this atonement was in itself a sin, calling for other
atonements more atonement, and so on, as if there could be
anything but life, for the living.
[1587] And no doubt he would have
wondered if it was really necessary to be guilty in order to be
punished but for the more memory, more and more galling, i [place = inline] [⁁] [place = margin left] o[ [place = supralinear] o]f his
having consented to live in his mother, then to leave her.
[1588] And
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