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TO THE LIGHTHOUSEanger rising in her, never gave; that man took.She, on the other hand, would be forced to give.Mrs. Ramsay had given. Giving, giving, giving,she had died—and had left all this. Really, shewas angry with Mrs. Ramsay. With the brushslightly trembling in her fingers she looked at thehedge, the step, the wall. It was all Mrs.Ramsay’s doing. She was dead. Here was Lily,at forty-four, wasting her time, unable to do athing, standing there, playing at painting, playingat the one thing one did not play at, and it wasall Mrs. Ramsay’s fault. She was dead. Thestep where she used to sit was empty. She was

dead.

But why repeat this over and over again? Whybe always trying to bring up some feeling shehad not got? There was a kind of blasphemyin it. It was all dry: all withered: all spent.They ought not to have asked her; she oughtHB: Circled in penciloutsetgal57not to have HB: Circled in pencilcome. One can’t waste one’s timeat forty-four, she thought. She hated playingat painting. A brush, the one dependable thingin a world of strife, ruin[∧]—VW: dash is cancelled —peter.shillingsburg, /[%]chaos—that one shouldnot play with, kHB: Pencil line indicating galley 58nowingly even: she detested it.gal.58But made her. You shan’t touch your canvas,he seemed to say, bearing down on her, till HB Pencil mark; possibly a compositor’s indication of a starting point for typesetting you’vegiven me what I want of you. Here he was,close upon her again, greedy, distraught. Well,232