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[0096] Likewise the cries no louder now clearer now under the sky than
xx when within immured head on hands and now
as then now faint now clear as if windborne but
no wind.[0097] Likewise their whenceabouts no more to be
determined out of doors than unsurprisingly
within.[0098] Bringing to bear on all this all his
remains of reason he sought help in the thought
that his memory of indoors was perhaps at fault
& found it of none.

[0099] Further to his perplexity
his soundless tread as when barefoot he trod
his floor. All ears so far and nothing to ^{worse than} no avail
he finally began to look about him.[0100] So ^{all ears} from
bad to worse till in the end he ceased if not to hear
to listen - began to look about him[0101] with the result
he was in a field of grass which went some way if nothing
else to account for his soundless tread and ^{as if to pay for this} before long
again in trouble. ^{[ADDITION]Addition on page 6vand then a little later as if to make up for this some way to increase his trouble.}

[0102] For he could recall no field of
grass from even the very heart of which no
limit of any kind was to be seen discovered but
always ^{in some quarter or another} some end in sight such as a hedge
or some other form ^manner of bourn for ^from which to make ^return.
[0103] Nor on his looking ^{[ADDITION]Addition on page 6vmore} closer ^{[ADDITION]Addition on page 6vto make matters worse} was this the short green grass he
seemed to remember eaten down by flocks & herds but
long and in colour light grey verging here & there on
white.

[0104] Then he sought help in the thought that his memory
of outdoors was perhaps at fault & found it of none.[0105] So
all eyes from bad to worse till in the end he ceased if
not to see to look about him ^{[ADDITION]Addition on page 6vor more closely} & set out to what is in
the word to introspect out to consider same or
another ^cogitate.[0106] To this end for want of a mound ^stone on which to
sit ^{[ADDITION]Addition on page 6vlike Walter [for ] with crossed legs and cross his legs} and ^perhaps bury his head in his hands he ^xx could think
of nothing better ^{there was nothing better left to him} than better than nothing to stop
dead & stand stock still which after a moment
of hesitation he did and of course bow himself
down ^{? sink his head as one deep in thought meditation} which after another moment of hesitation
he did also.

[0107] But soon weary of delving in vainly
delving in those remains he moved on through the long
hoar grass resigned to not knowing where he was or
how he eve ^{how he had} got there or where he which where he was
going or how to get back to whence he knew not how
he came.[0108] [A] So on unknowing and no end in sight.
[0109] Not only xxx Unknowing and with no without
any wish to know[A] what is more no least wish
to know[A] ^{[ADDITION]Addition on page 6v[A] .. nor indeed any wish of any kind
nor therefore any sorrow save
the wish that the old longing
for the chimes to cease and
the cries for good and sorrow
that they did not.
that he would have preferred
the chimes to cease & the cries
for good & was sorry that
they did not.} [0110] ^{[ADDITION]Addition on page 6vThe chimes now
faint now clear as if carried
by the wind but not a breath
and the cries now faint now clear.}

[0080] Till that last sorrow xxx when so many strokes
cries since the last strokes ^heard & then such silence
since the last cries ^heard that heeded this sorrow to a
little by little in its turn this sorrow dies & leaves him.

Next back x in at last back in again no knowing
how & all again as before word for word till the
words till so many ^following which now unsaid and on
if ever from the same as ever. x Now unsaid Unsay
not because then missaid because ^since all missaid
but because ^since before their time too soon but because

x Now unsaid Unsay
not because then missaid because ^since all missaid
but because ^since before their time too soon but because
Next back x in at last back in again no knowing
how & all again as before word for word till the
words till so many ^following which now unsaid and on
if ever from the same as ever.