
[0732] with a malacca.
[0733] The dog was uniformly yellow, a mongrel I suppose, or
a pedigree, I can never tell the difference.
[0734] His death must have hurt
him less than my fall me.
[0735] And he at least was dead.
[0736] We slung him across
the saddle and set off like an army in retreat, helping each other I
suppose, to keep the corpse from falling, to keep the bicycle moving, to
keep ourselves moving, through the jeering crowd.
[0737] The house where Sophie-
— no, I can't call her that any more, I'll try calling her Lousse,
without the Mrs — the house where Lousse lived was not far away.
[0738] Oh
it was not nearby either, I had my bellyful by the time I got there.
[0739] That is to say I didn't have it really.
[0740] You think you have your bellyful
but you seldom have it really.
[0741] It was because I knew I was there that I
had my bellyful, a mile more to go and I would only have had my bellyful
an hour later.
[0742] [⁁]Human nature.
[0742|001] Marvellous thing.
[0742|002] The house where Lousse lived.
[0743] Must I describe it?
[0744] I don't think so.
[0745] I won't, that's all I know, for
the moment.
[0746] Perhaps later on, if I get to know it.
[0747] And Lousse?
[0748] Must
I describe her? I suppose [⁁]so.
[0749] Let's first bury the dog. [0750] It was
she dug the hole, under a tree.
[0751] You always bury your dog under a tree,
I don't know why.
[0752] But I have my suspicions.
[0753] It was she dug the hole
because I couldn't , though I was the gentleman, because of my leg.
[0754] That is to say I could have dug with a trowel, but not with a spade.
[0755] For when you dig a grave[₰] one leg supports the weight of the body while
the other, flexing and unflexing, drives the spade into the earth.
[0756] Now
my sick leg, I forget which, it's immaterial here, was in a condition
neither to dig, because it was rigid, nor alone to support me, because
it would have collapsed.
[0757] I had so to speak only one leg at my disposal,
I was virtually onelegged, and I would have been happier, [⁁]livelier,
amputated at the groin.
[0758] And if they had removed a few testicles into
the bargain I wouldn't have objected.
[0759] For from [⁁]such testicles [⁁]as mine,
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