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which had done very fairly since there was only one square army of
of thick[?] waving grass yet to be demolished on the lawn
while the ba behind him the shining grass lay prone; the
the curt stubble was crisp. He brought order &
laid low the wilderness with each sweep, & to do him justice was a
steady worker, slow but remorseless, (a powerful but
 not a inarticulate
 organ) 94as if each movement were
timed by95 an accurate issuedsent out by the shock offrom his heart, &
sucked in & sent out; so that even now he would waste no
words with the women in the window, only grinned & spat, & resumed
again that rhythmic singsong stroke, which was
advanced like the sweep of an invincible army over the
insugr insurgents rioting & warybefore in their tumult b up the
bank & over the lawn & so laid them flat.
      When, at six in the evening, & the pale green swathes
lay twined with convolvulus & or wild flowers on the lawn,
when the rooks were deliberating, fastidiously, tentatively,
among the tree tops, & from again like some half
heard melody some adumbrated music whose what notes the ear
half catches but lets some notes drop fall so that the harmony is
never completed, now the time assured, but now there are
long pauses & new notes reiterated close together
the sea & the machine, the pigeon, & the boys a barking
 dog voice, all
struck far & faint, yet out at sea, deep in the fields, in the air above[?]
until it seemed as if harmony were about to triumph –
then suddenly the in would rush the wind
as if now they must unite together: but then in rushed the
wind, & all was dispersed

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