
[2720] imply that of the relation, so far as I know.
[2721] And not only this, but I
should have invested mh [place = overwritten] y man, from the outset, with the air of a fabulous
being, which something told me could not fail to help me later on.
[2722] So I
took off my coat and my shoes, I opened my trousers and I slipped in
between the sheets, with an easy conscience, knowing only too well what I
was doing.
[2723] Molloy, or Mollose, was no stranger to me.
[2724] If I had had colleagues,
I might have suspected I had spoken of him to them, as of one destined to
occupy us, sooner or later.
[2725] But I had no colleagues and knew nothing of
the circumstances in which I had learnt of his existence.
[2726] Perhaps I had
invented him, I mean found him ready made in my head.
[2727] There is no doubt
one sometimes meets with strangers who are not entire strangers, through
their having played a part in certain cerebral reels.
[2728] This had never
happened to me, K [place = overwritten] I considered myself immune from such experiences, and
even the simple deja vu seemed infin
t [place = overwritten] itely out [place = overwritten] beyond my reach.
[2729] But it was
happening to me then, O [place = overwritten] or I was greatly mistaken.
[2730] For who could have spoken
to me of Molloy if not myself and to whom if not to myself could I have
spoken of him?
[2731] I racked my mind in vain. [2732] For in my rare conversations
with men I avoided such subjects.
[2733] If anyone else had spoken to me of
Molloy I would have requested him to stop and I myself would not have
confided his existence to a living soul for anything in the world.
[2734] If I
had had colleagues things would naturally have been different.
[2735] Among
colleagues one says things which in any other company one keeps to oneself.
[2736] But I had no colleagues.
[2737] And perhaps this accounts for the immense un-
-easiness I had been feeling ever since the beginning of this affair.
[2738] For
it is no small matter, for a grown man thinking he is done [place = supralinear] done with surprises,
to see himself the theatre of such ignominy.
[2739] I had really good cause to
be alarmed.
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