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[2091] He stood up, rubbing his hands over his chest. [2092] I could do with another
^{[place = margin left] [|]} beer, he said. [2093] Go to the kitchen, I said, the maid will serve you.
[2094] Goodbye, Moran, he said.

[2095] It was too late for mass. [2096] I did not need to consult my watch to
know, I could feel mass had begun without me. [2097] I who never missed mass, to
have missed it on that Sunday of all Sundays! [2098] When I so needed it! [2099] To
buck me up! [2100] I decided to ask for a private communion, in the course of
the afternoon. [2101] I would go without lunck ^{[place = overwritten] h}. [2102] Father Ambrose was always very
kind and accommodating.

[2103] I called Jacques. [2104] Without result. [2105] I said, s ^{[place = overwritten] S}eeing me still in
conference he has gone to mass alk ^{[place = overwritten] o}ne. [2106] This explanation turned out
subsequently to be the correct one. [2107] But I addeee ^{[place = overwritten] d}, He might have come and
seen me, before leaving. [2108] I liked thinking in monologue and then my lips
moved visibly. [2109] But no doubt he was afraid of disturbing me and of being
reprimanded. [2110] For I was sometimes inclined to go too far when I reprimand-
-ed my son, who was consequently a little afraid of me.

[2111] I myself had
never been sufficiently chastened. [2112] Oh I was ^{[place = supralinear] had} not ^{[place = supralinear] [⁁]been} spoiled either, I was ^{[place = margin left] [₰]}
merely neglected. [2113] Whence bad habits ingrained beyond remedy and of which
even the most meticulous piety has never been able to break me. [2114] I hoped
to spare my son this misfortune, by giving him a good clout from time to
time, together with my reasons for doing so.

[2115] Then I said, Is he barefadd ^{[place = overwritten] c}ed
enough to tell me, on his return, that he has been to mass if he has not ^{[place = inline] ,}
been ^{[place = margin left] [₰]}, if for example he has merely run off to join y ^{[place = overwritten] h}is little friends,
behind the slaughter-house? [2116] And I determined to get the truth out of
Father Ambrose, on this subject. [2117] For it was imperative my son should not
imagine he was capable of lying to me with im; ^{[place = overwritten] p}unity. [2118] And if Father
Ambrose could not enlighten me, I would apply to the verger, to whom ^{[place = supralinear] [⁁]whose vigilance} it
was inconceivable that the presence of my son at twelve o'clock mass had