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[0705] He brought down heavily on my handle-bars his big red hairy paw, I
noticed it myself, and had it appears with the lady the following
conversation. [0706] Is this the man who ran over your dog, Madam? [0707] He is,
sergeant, and what of it? [0708] No, I can't record this fatuous collow^quy.

[0709] So I will merely observe that finally in his turn the constable too
dispersed, the word is not too strong, grumbling and growling, followed
by the last idlers who had given up all hope of my coming to a bad end.

[0710] But he turned back and said, Remove that dog. [0711] Free at last to go I
began to do so. [0712] But the lady, a Mrs Loy, I might at^s well say it now and
be done with it, or Lousse, I forget, Christian name something like
Sophie, held me back, by the tail of my coat, and said, assuming the
words were the same when I heard them as when first spoken, Sir, I need
you. [0713] And seeing I suppose from my expression, which frequently betrays
me, that she had made herself understood, she must have said, If he
understands that he can understand the rest.

[0714] And she was not mistaken,
for by the end of a certain time I found myself in possession of certain
ideas or points of view which could only have come to me from her,
namely that having killed her dog I was morally obliged to help her
carry it home and bury it, that she did not wish to prosecute me for

[0714] what I had done, but that it was not always possible to do as one did
not wish, that she found me likeable enough in spite of my hideous
appearance and that she would be happy to hold out to me a helping hand,
and so on, I've forgoe^tten the half of it.

[0715] Ah yes, I too needed her, it
seemed. [0716] She needed me to help her get rid of her dog, and I needed her,
I've forgotten for what. [0717] She must have told me, for that was an
insinuation that I could not decently pass over in silence as I had the
rest, and I made no bones about telling her I needed hⁿeither her nor