MS-WU-MSS008-3-50-1

[0805] for my stiff leg. [0806] Without ceasing to ply me with delicacies she kept up
a chatter of which I did not understand the hundredth part. [0807] With her own
hand she took off my hat, and took ^{[place = supralinear] [⁁]carried} it away, to hang it up somewhere, on
a hatstand ^{[place = supralinear] [⁁]hat-rack} I suppose, and seemed surprised when the lace pulled her up in
her stride. [0808] She had a parrot, very pretty, all the most approved colours.

[0809] I understood him better than his mistree ^{[place = overwritten] s}s. [0810] I don't mean I understood him
better than she understood him, I mean I understood him better than I
understood her. [0811] He said ^{[place = supralinear] exclaimed} from time to time, Fuck the son of a bitch,
F ^{[place = supralinear] f}uck the son of a bitch. [0812] He must have belonged to an American sailor,
before he belonged to Lousse. [0813] Pets often change masters.

[0814] He didn't say
much else. [0815] No, I'm wrong, he also said, Putain de merde! [0816] He must have
belonged to a French sailor before he belonged the to the American sailor.
Putain de merde! [0817] Unless he had hit on it alone, it wouldn't surprise me.
[0818] Lousse tried to make him say, Pretty Polly!

[0819] I think it was too late. [0820] He
listened, his head on one side, pondered, then said, Fuck the son of a
bitch. [0821] It was clear he was doing his best. [0822] Him too one day she would
bury. [0823] In his cage r ^{[place = overwritten] p}robably. [0824] Me too, if I had stayed, she would have
buried. [0825] If I had her address I'd write to her, to come and bury me.

[0826] I fell asleep. [0827] I woke up in a bed, in my skin. [0828] They had carried their
impertina ^{[place = supralinear] [⁁]e}nce to the point of washing me, to judge by the smell I gave ^{[place = inline] off,}
no longer gave off. [0829] I went to the door. [0830] Locked. [0831] To the window. [0832] Bar ^{[place = inline] red.}
[0833] It was not yet quite dark. [0834] What is there left to try when you have tr ^{[place = inline] ied}
the door and the window? [0835] The chimney perhaps. [0836] I looo ^{[place = overwritten] k}ed for my cloth ^{[place = inline] es}.

[0837] I found a light switch and switched it on. [0838] No result. [0839] What a story!
[0840] All that left me cold, or nearly. [0841] I found my crutches, against an e ^{[place = inline] asy}
chair. [0842] It may seem strange that I was able to go through the motio ^{[place = inline] ns}
I have described without their help. [0843] I find it strange. [0844] You don't
remember wh immediately who you are, when you wake. [0845] On a chair I fo ^{[place = inline] und}