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& wished to survive, surely
she survived & wished to survive Yet withfrom the flash of her sidelong
glance, its queerness, & why she seems & her lurch & her smile
And then, the meaningless strain, hummed its elegy too:
gave expressed some without saying using any word gave off so
such a volume of plaintiveness that sound of plaintiveness,
such a cry cried out how Ins[?] deeply the witless old woman
was weary of it all; how it was not verygoodnow, not a very happy, place not a place to
lie & loll in – this world that she had known for seventy years;
how & then again – unable to face the with her sidelong leer
which could not must slip & turn aside, even as she
sloo stopped dusting & gaped at her own old head in the glass
she seemed to shake the sorrows of her itworld off her
sh as if askin well There was after all, something or other;
& yet & then resumed her work, dusting, singing &
until all37 to start again, her old amble & hobble
dusting, singing

 


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