Mysteries - Knut Hamsun [166]
4 259/254. Deleted in CW: “at that time we were talking about antirheumatic chains or whatever it might be, perhaps it was about the Norwegian fairy tales.”
5 263/256. Deleted in CW:
They began to walk.
“Dagny, Dagny!” he said suddenly. And before she realized it, he threw himself on his knees, threw himself down in the middle of the road and kept lying there like that for a minute, cap in hand and his head bowed, as if he expected a blow. She looked about her in the utmost fright; in her perplexity she even made a move to raise him up, but abandoned the attempt.
“No, get up, will you!” she cried just above his head, “this minute, do you hear! What’s the matter with you? In the middle of the road to boot!”
When he did get up, she even made him aware that he had to brush the sand off his knees. They didn’t walk any farther, but kept standing in the same spot. Then she said,
6 266/257. From here on to the end of the paragraph, P reads: “But one doesn’t dare, alas, no, one doesn’t have the courage; one wastes one opportunity after another without daring to, until the day comes when one can’t resist any longer.... Forgive me, Miss Kielland, I’ve been talking so much, I beg you to forgive me! Shall we go? Oh, Dagny, I love you so very dearly; I’m grateful just because I’ve been permitted to tell you so!”
7 266-67/257. From here to the end of the paragraph, P reads: “He is handsome, he is an officer, whereas you yourself are an agronomist, nobody; besides, he is already her fiance, and that’s the end of it. The heart doesn’t yield to anything, not even to the utmost impossibility. Miss Kielland, for my love’s sake put some kindness into your answer! I do not want to love you, but I can’t help myself. So, is there no hope? Are you completely lost to me forever? Oh, not yet, to be sure? Please, please, not yet!”
8 267/257. From here to the beginning of the next sentence, P reads: “If you knew how anxious I am! You will do me a great favor if you go back to your room and try to resign yourself. You won’t make me unhappy, will you?”
9 268/258. Deleted in CW: “Soon someone might come....”
10 269/258. Deleted in CW: He wouldn’t see her anymore; in fact, she hadn’t even wanted to make the promise as a joke, though he begged her to do so as a favor.
11 In P, the paragraph reads up to this point:
“Forgive me! It was mean of me to forget that. You mustn’t feel sad on account of me, I cannot be anything for you in any case.”
CHAPTER XII (pp. 143-51)
1 276/261. Deleted in CW: “You’re nodding, so you remember, don’t you? Well, there you see, I was right, wasn’t I?”
2 279/263. Deleted in CW: “So forgive me! I shouldn’t have hurt you; but sitting here I feel all the time”
3 285/266. The word “shamming” was added in CW.
CHAPTER XIII (pp. 152-68)
1 287/267. This sentence replaced the following in P: Miniman pulled Nagel aside and whispered a thank-you for the new trousers, which he had on already; they went so perfectly with the coat, his new coat, and they were likely to last for as long as he lived, his entire life, oh sure, his entire life.
2 289/268. The counterpart to this sentence in P reads: “Anyway, I willingly recognize Tolstoy as one of the most active fools of our age. And so I say the hell with it all! ...”
3 290/268. In P, the rest of this paragraph reads: “But if Tolstoy is a fool, where will we all end up?”
4 290—91/268. Deleted in CW: “one only has to except his inestimable qualities as a plowman, his torn tunic, the leather belt girding his loins, that is, the man’s clumsy affectation-this one has to except. What one is left with is a gifted man, simply a highly gifted man, who writes books and missionizes. His books are both good and long, but most of them could have been both longer and better; his mission abounds in personal sacrifice and in puffery, but”
5 291/268. Deleted in CW: “I see you’re becoming speechless with fright, and that wasn’t the idea.”
6 291/268. Deleted in CW: “and that’s good, for otherwise you might find me rather quarrelsome for a host”
7 292-93/269. The last