Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Molloy

MS-WU-MSS008-3-50-2

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[4838] with a sharp ridge, and steep overhanging slopes. [4839] I put my hand in the hive, moved it among the empty trays, felt along the bottom. [4840] It encountered, in a corner, a dry light ball. [4841] It crumbled under my fingers. [4842] They had clustered together for a little warmth, to try and sleep. [4843] I took out a handful. [4844] It was too dark to see, I put it in my pocket. [4845] It weighed nothing. [4846] They had been left out all winter, their honey taken away, without sugar. [4847] Yes, now I may make an end. [4848] I did not go to the hen-house. [4849] My hens were dead too, I knew they were dead. [4850] They had not been killed in the same way, except the grey one perhaps, that was the only difference. [4851] My bees, my hens, I had deserted them. [4852] I went towards the house. [4853] It was in darkness. [4854] The door was locked. [4855] I burst it open. [4856] Perhaps I could have opened it, with one of my keys. [4857] I turned the switch. [4858] No light. [4859] I went to the kitchen, to Martha's room. [4860] No one. [4861] There is nothing more to tell. [4862] The house was deserted empty. [4863] The company had cut off the light. [4864] They have offered to let me have it back. [4865] But I told them they could keep it. [4866] That is the kind of man I have become. [4867] I went back to the garden. [4868] The next day I looked at my handful of bees. [4869] A little dust of annulets and wings. [4870] I found some letters, at the foot of the stairs, in the box. [4871] A letter from Savory. [4872] My son was well. [4873] He would be. [4874] Let us hear no more about him. [4875] He has come back. [4876] He is sleeping. [4877] A letter from Youdi, in the third person, asking for a report. [4878] He will get his report. [4879] It is summer again. [4880] This time a year ago I was setting out. [4881] I am clearing out. [4882] One day I received a visit from Gaber. [4883] He wanted the report. [4884] That's funny, I thought I was done with people and talk. [4885] Call back, I said. [4886] One day I received a visit from Father Ambrose. [4887] Is it possible! he said when he saw me. [4888] I think he really liked me, in his own way. [4889] I told him not to count on me any more. [4890] He began to talk. [4891] He was right. [4892] Who is not right.? [4893] I left him. [4894] I am clearing out. [4895] Perhaps I shall meet Molloy. [4896] My knee is

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[4896] no better. [4897] It is no worse either. [4898] I have crutches now. [4899] I shall go faster, all will go faster. [4900] They will be happy days. [4901] I shall learn. [4902] All there was to sell I have sold. [4903] But I had heavy debts. [4904] I have been a man long enough, I shall not put up with it any more, I shall not try any more. [4905] I shall never light this lamp again. [4906] I am going to blow it out and go into the garden. [4907] I think of the long May days, June days, when I lived in the garden. [4908] One day I talked to Hanna. [4909] She gave me news of Zulu, of the Elsner sisters. [4910] She knew who I was, she was not afraid of me. [4911] She never went out, she disliked going out. [4912] She talked to me from her window. [4913] The news was bad, but might have been worse. [4914] There was a bright side. [4915] They were lovely days. [4916] The winter had been exceptionally rigorous, everybody said so. [4917] We had therefore a right to this superb summer. [4918] I do not know if we had a right to it. [4919] My birds had not been killed. [4920] They were wild birds. [4921] And yet quite trusting. [4922] I recognized them and they seemed to recognize me. [4923] But one never knows. [4924] Some were missing and some were new. [4925] I tried to understand their language better. [4926] Without having recourse to mine. [4927] They were the longest, loveliest days of all the year. [4928] I lived in the garden. [4929] I have spoken of a voice telling me things. [4930] I was getting to know it better now, to understand what it wanted. [4931] It did not use the words that Moran had been taught when he was little and that he in his turn had taught to his little one. [4932] So that at first I did not know what it wanted. [4933] But in the end I understood this language. [4934] I understood it, I understand it, all wrong perhaps. [4935] That is not what matters. [4936] It told me to write thise report. [4937] Does this mean I am freer now than I was? [4938] I do not know. [4939] I shall learn. [4940] Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. [4941] The rain is beating on the windows. [4942] It was not midnight. [4943] It was not raining.

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