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As she lurched – for she rolled like a a ship at sea, & leered, for
her eyes though seemed fell on nothing directly, but with a sidelong
glance, expressing a whimsical approach, as ifa method perhaps of
deprecating the scorn or anger which of the worldmight be directed upon her –
.for she was not completely mistress of her wits, & yet had did not mind to30
.wh blend[?]31 enough to laugh at dust & clean, or laugh had [?]a [?]humoura sort of tolerance
.indeed32 for the sanity of other people, as she rolled thus, smiling
even in the empty rooms at something she she sangraised
the a her voice in a song. which Rubbing the glass of the
look long looking glass, & leering sideways at her own
swinging figure, she chanted something about which had
been gay, & surely perhaps33 on the stage twenty years before,
but now, like a coming from the toothless bonneted old
caretaking woman had lost its starch, become denuded of all
 the force of words,
 of accent,
 meaning, & turned
as far as words can turn, into rolled out like the
so whimsical the voice of witlessness itself & endurance &
long ag All humbleness which depressed almost to the
verge of non existence without itself34. The voice of the
indomitable principle of life, & its power to persist; &
its sorrow, & its courage, & its sidelong persist assiduity,
for rejected & its determination, denied one entrance, to
try seek another - & its humour, & its sorrow, so that if
Mrs. McNab had beenseemed chanting / crooning an
to have turned
 her old sprightly
 dance song into

elegy which had long living had robbed of all
bitterness, so & that while she the burden of her tune
seemed to be    accept,    if it was (as she
lurched about dusting, wiping) accept [?]&35 accept
not to fight, but to accept; & if this humble creature
could accept, if even her old body had its indomitable
reason for continuing in its humble way persistin
persist36; And if she in her bonnet thus survived,

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