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Dilsey and Mother went out.
"Hush up." Luster said. "You hush up. You want me to burn your other hand for
you. You aint hurt. Hush up."
"Here." Dilsey said. "Stop crying, now." She gave me the slipper, and I
hushed. "Take him to the liberry." she said. "And if I hear him again, I going
to whip you myself."
We went to the library. Luster turned on the light. The windows went black,
and the dark tall place on the wall came and I went and touched it. It was
like a door, only it wasn't a door.
The fire came behind me and I went to the fire and sat on the floor, holding
the slipper. The fire went higher. It went onto the cushion in Mother's chair.
"Hush up." Luster said. "Cant you never get done for a while. Here I done
built you a fire, and you wont even look at it."
2.5
Your name is Benjy, Caddy said. Do you hear. Benjy. Benjy.
Dont tell him that, Mother said. Bring him here.
Caddy lifted me under the arms.
Get up, Mau I mean Benjy, she said.
Dont try to carry him, Mother said. Cant you lead him over here. Is that too
much for you to think of.
I can carry him, [...]
1.14
Caddy said. "Let me carry him up, Dilsey."
"Go on, Minute." Dilsey said. "You aint big enough to tote a flea. You go on
and be quiet, like Mr Jason said."
There was a light at the top of the stairs. Father was there, in his shirt
sleeves. The way he looked said Hush. Caddy whispered,
"Is Mother sick."
2.6
Versh set me down and we went into Mother's room. There was a fire. It was
rising and falling on the walls. There was another fire in the mirror, I could
smell the sickness. It was on a cloth folded on Mother's head. Her hair was on
the pillow. The fire didn't reach it, but it shone on her hand, where her
rings were jumping.
"Come and tell Mother goodnight." Caddy said. We went to the bed. The fire
went out of the mirror. Father got up from the bed and lifted me up and Mother
put her hand on my head.
"What time is it." Mother said. Her eyes were closed.
"Ten minutes to seven." Father said. "It's too early for him to go to bed."
Mother said. "He'll wake up at daybreak, and I simply cannot bear another day
like today."
"There, there." Father said. He touched Mother's face.
"I know I'm nothing but a burden to you. Mother said. "But I'll be gone soon.
Then you will be rid of my bothering."
"Hush." Father said. "I'll take him downstairs a while." He took me up. "Come
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on, old fellow. Let's go down stairs a while. We'll have to be quiet while
Quentin is studying, now.
Caddy went and leaned her face over the bed and Mother's hand came into the
firelight. Her rings jumped on Caddy's back.
1.15
Mother's sick, Father said. Dilsey will put you to bed. Where's Quentin.
Versh getting him, Dilsey said.
Father stood and watched us go past. We could hear Mother in her room. Caddy
said "Hush." Jason was still climbing the stairs. He had his hands in his
pockets.
"You all must be good tonight." Father said. "And be quiet, so you wont
disturb Mother."
"We'll be quiet." Caddy said. "You must be quiet now, Jason." She said. We
tiptoed.
2.7
We could hear the roof. I could see the fire in the mirror too. Caddy lifted
me again.
"Come on, now." she said. "Then you can come back to the fire. Hush, now."
"Candace." Mother said.
"Hush, Benjy." Caddy said. "Mother wants you a minute. Like a good boy. Then
you can come back. Benjy."
Caddy let me down, and I hushed.
"Let him stay here, Mother. When he's through looking at the fire, then you
can tell him."
"Candace." Mother said. Caddy stooped and lifted me. We staggered. "Candace."
Mother said.
"Hush." Caddy said. "You can still see it. Hush."
"Bring him here." Mother said. "He's too big for you to carry. You must stop
trying. You'll injure your back. All of our women have prided themselves on
their carriage. Do you want to look like a washerwoman."
"He's not too heavy." Caddy said. "I can carry him."
"Well, I dont want him carried, then." Mother said. "A five year old child.
No, no. Not in my lap. Let him stand up."
"If you'll hold him, he'll stop." Caddy said. "Hush." she said. "You can go
right back. Here. Here's your cushion. See."
"Dont, Candace." Mother said.
"Let him look at it and he'll be quiet." Caddy said. "Hold up just a minute
while I slip it out. There, Benjy. Look."
I looked at it and hushed.
"You humor him too much." Mother said. "You and your father both. You dont
realise that I am the one who has to pay for it. Damuddy spoiled Jason that
way and it took him two years to outgrow it, and I am not strong enough to go
through the same thing with Benjamin."
"You dont need to bother with him." Caddy said. "I like to take care of him.
Dont I. Benjy.
"Candace." Mother said. "I told you not to call him that. It was bad enough
when your father insisted on calling you by that silly nickname, and I will
not have him called by one. Nicknames are vulgar. Only common people use them.
Benjamin." she said.
"Look at me." Mother said.
"Benjamin." she said. She took my face in her hands and turned it to hers.
"Benjamin." she said. "Take that cushion away, Candace."
"He'll cry." Caddy said.
"Take that cushion away, like I told you." Mother said. "He must learn to
mind."
The cushion went away.
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"Hush, Benjy." Caddy said.
"You go over there and sit down." Mother said. "Benjamin." She held my face to
hers.
"Stop that." she said. "Stop it."
But I didn't stop and Mother caught me in her arms and began to cry, and I
cried. Then the cushion came back and Caddy held it above Mother's head. She
drew Mother back in the chair and Mother lay crying against the red and yellow
cushion.
"Hush, Mother." Caddy said. "You go up stairs and lay down, so you can be
sick. I'll go get Dilsey." She led me to the fire and I looked at the bright,
smooth shapes. I could hear the fire and the roof
Father took me up. He smelled like rain.
"Well, Benjy." he said. "Have you been a good boy today."
Caddy and Jason were fighting in the mirror.
"You, Caddy." Father said.
They fought. Jason began to cry.
"Caddy." Father said. Jason was crying. He wasn't fighting anymore, but we
could see Caddy fighting in the mirror and Father put me down and went into
the mirror and fought too. He lifted Caddy up. She fought. Jason lay on the
floor, crying. He had the scissors in his hand. Father held Caddy.
"He cut up all Benjy's dolls." Caddy said. "I'll slit his gizzle."
"Candace." Father said.
"I will." Caddy said. "I will." She fought. Father held her. She kicked at
Jason. He rolled into the corner, out of the mirror. Father brought Caddy to
the fire. They were all out of the mirror. Only the fire was in it. Like the
fire was in a door.
"Stop that." Father said. "Do you want to make Mother sick in her room.
Caddy stopped. "He cut up all the dolls Mau Benjy and I made." Caddy said.
"He did it just for meanness.
"I didn't." Jason said. He was sitting up, crying. "I didn't know they were
his. I just thought they were some old papers.
"You couldn't help but know." Caddy said. "You did it just "
"Hush." Father said. "Jason." he said. "I'll make you some more tomorrow."
Caddy said. "We'll make a lot of them. Here, you can look at the cushion,
too."
19.18
Jason came in.
I kept telling you to hush, Luster said.
What's the matter now, Jason said.
"He just trying hisself." Luster said. "That the way he been going on all
day."
"Why dont you let him alone, then." Jason said. "If you cant keep him quiet,
you'll have to take him out to the kitchen. The rest of us cant shut ourselves
up in a room like Mother does."
"Mammy say keep him out the kitchen till she get supper." Luster said.
"Then play with him and keep him quiet." Jason said. "Do I have to work all
day and then come home to a mad house." He opened the paper and read it.
2.8
You can look at the fire and the mirror and the cushion too, Caddy said. You
wont have to wait until supper to look at the cushion, now. We could hear the
roof. We could hear Jason too, crying loud beyond the wall.
19.19
Dilsey said, "You come, Jason. You letting him alone, is you." [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]