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Posted 25 April 2007 - 06:08 AM

“Annie’s voice is audible, very patient, and worn…” Page 688
“I, feel, every, day, more, and, more, in—adequate.” Page 688
“… I, need, a, teacher, as, much, as, Helen—“ Page 689
“My, mind, is, undisciplined, full, of, skips, and, jumps, and—“ Page 690
“… assuming a cheerful energy.” Page 690
“You’ve taught her so much, these two weeks…” Page 690
“Not enough. Obedience isn’t enough.” Page 690
“All right, I don’t know how. I’ve done everything I could think of.” Page 690
“You must rest.” Page 690
“… You are a tyrant.” Page 691
“You’ve done wonders for her, Miss Sullivan.” Page 691
“I can’t risk her unlearning it, give me more time alone with her, another week to—“ Page 692
“I mean her to.” Page 692
“I don’t know how to tell you.” Page 692
“She bends in compassion to touch her lips to Helen’s temple…” Page 692
“I wanted to teach you—oh, everything the Earth is full of, Helen, everything on it that’s ours for a wink and it’s gone, and what we are on it, the—light we bring to it and leave behind in—words, why, you can see five thousand years back with words… and I know, I know, one word and I can—put the world in your hand—and whatever it is to me, I won’t take less!” Page 692
“She turns, gazing around at the stripped room, bidding it silently farewell, impassively, like a defeated general on the deserted battlefield.” Page 694
“And I owe God one.” Page 694
“I wanted to teach her what language is. I wanted to her yes.” Page 695
“I don’t know how. I know without it to do nothing but obey is—no gift, obedience without understanding is a—blindness, too.” Page 695
“All I can do is keep on.” Page 695
“The world isn’t an easy place for anyone.” Page 696
“… but to let her have her way in everything is a life, to her, I can’t—“
“Her eyes fill, it takes her by surprise, and she laughs through it.” Page 696
“Because I will. As long as you let me stay, that’s one promise I’ll keep.” Page 696
“… Annie stops her arm.” Page 697
“It will be, when I give in to that.” Page 699
“But she cannot accept it; at her own chair she shakes her head…” Page 699
“I’m interested.” Page 699
“… Annie at once moves in to grasp her wrist…” Page 700
“Annie… snatches the pitcher away in one hand, hoists Helen up bodily under the other arm, and starts to carry her out…” Page 700
“… I ask her to see, I expect her to see… !” Page 700
“… and does automatically what she has done so many times before, spells into Helen’s free palm.” Page 701
“Yes. Yes! Oh, my dear—“ Page 701
“… And Annie… cries wildly at the house.” Page 701
“… Annie spells feverishly into her hand.” Page 701
“I, love, Helen.” Page 703
“(She clutches the child to her, tight this time, not spelling, whispering into her hair.) Forever, and—(… There are no voices… she can breathe the end of her phrase without fear.) –ever.” Page 703
“… hand in hand, they cross the yard and ascend the porch steps…” Page 703








“The chick has to come out of its shell, sometime. You come out, too.” Page 688
“There’s only one way out for you, and it’s language.” Page 688
“How—serene she is.” Page 690
“Now I can’t get her to stop!” Page 690
“When Helen finds it missing, she folds her hands in her lap and quietly waits.” Page 690
“… Helen begins to eat, neatly.” Page 690
“In her bones those five fingers know, that had aches to—speak out, and something in her mind is asleep…” Page 690
“… She is, so—composed, so—attractive.” Page 691
“She—never sows me she needs it, she won’t have any—caressing or—“ Page 691
“She has to learn that everything has its name!” Page 691
“Helen is playing with Belle’s claws; she makes letters with her fingers, shows them to Belle, waits with her palm…” Page 692
“Helen’s hand comes out into the light, groping.” Page 692
“Helen sits, puzzled.” Page 692
“Helen waits, uncomprehending.” Page 692
“Helen, with her hand free, strokes her cheek, suddenly forlorn.” Page 694
“… Helen begins groping, sensing something, trembling herself…” Page 694
“Helen clutches her, tight as she can.” Page 694
“Taken a wild thing, and given us back a child.” Page 694
“She stands a moment, then sniffs in one deep grateful breath, and her hands go out vigorously to familiar things…” Page 696
“Helen hurries… to the front door, opens and closes it, removes its key, opens and closes it again… repeats procedure, removing its key and hugging herself gleefully.” Page 696
“… he pats Annie’s hair in passing, rather to her surprise.” Page 696
“… Helen removes her napkin and drops it to the floor.” Page 697
“… Helen deliberately lift off her napkin and drop it again to the floor.” Page 697
“Helen yanks it off and throws it down.” Page 697
“Helen… slides down and commences to kick up under the table…” Page 697
“She’s learned not to throw things on the floor and kick.” Page 699
“… either give her to me or you keep her from kicking.” Page 699
“She’s testing you.” Page 699
“Of course she’s testing me. Let me keep her to what she’s learned and she’ll go on learning from me. Take her out of my hands and it all comes apart.” Page 699
“Be bountiful, it’s at her expense.” Page 699
“… Helen begins to fight and kick, clutching to the tablecloth and uttering laments.” Page 699
“Helen is motionless, thinking things through, until with a wicked glee she deliberately flings the fork on the floor. After another moment she plunges her hand into her food and crams a fistful into her mouth.” Page 700
“… Helen… encounters the pitcher; she swings with it at Annie…” Page 700
“Helen touches her cheek, waits uncertainly.” Page 700
“And Helen obeys.” Page 700
“She stands transfixed… There is a change in the sundown light, and with it a change in Helen’s face, some light coming into it we have never seen there, some struggle in the depths behind it; and her lips tremble, trying to remember something the muscles around them once knew, till at last it finds its way out, painfully, a baby sound buried under the debris of years of dumbness.” Page 701
“Wah. Wah. (And again, with great effort) Wah. Wah.” Age 701
“Helen… gropes frantically…” Page 701
“… Helen… stands almost bewildered, then drops to the ground, pats it swiftly, holds up her palm, imperious.” Page 701
“Now Helen is in such an excitement she is possessed, wild, trembling, cannot be still, turns, runs, falls on the porch steps, claps it, reaches out her palm…” Page 701
“She knows!” Page 701
“Presently Helen withdraws it, not jerkily, only with reserve… She stands thinking it over, then turns again and stumbles back to her parents… she hits Kate’s pocket until Kate digs them out for her… she holds out the keys and places them in Annie’s hand.” Page 703
“Helen feels her way across the yard, rather shyly…” Page 703
“… Helen tugs at Annie’s hand, and Annie comes with it. Helen pulls her toward the house, and hand in hand, they cross the yard and ascend the porch steps…” Page 703









Kate
“I’m too—restless, I can’t sit to it.” Page 688
“Haven’t you enough feeling to imagine what Katie has been undergoing, ever since—“ Page 688
“But not short. Interminable.” Page 688
“A mother loses a—protector.” Page 688
“We don’t just keep our children safe. They keep us safe.” Page 688
“Katie has lived with one kind for five years. And another is disappointment. In a child.” Page 688
“It has been better. For everyone.” Page 689
“Kate. At least we—Could you—be my friend?” “I am.” Page 690
“I worry about you, Miss Annie.” Page 690
“I don’t think you know how eager we are to have her back in our arms—“ Page 691
“But Kate is trembling with such impatience that her voice breaks from her, harsh.” Page 694
“… Kate, falling one step in onto her knees, clasps her, kissing her.” Page 694
“I think we’ve had enough of locked doors, too.” Page 696
“… Kate lays hers on Annie’s.” Page 699
“I’ve—made all Helen’s favorite foods, tonight.” Page 699
“Take her, Miss Annie.” Page 699
“Kate rises in trepidation to mediate.” Page 700
“Kate and Keller go to their knees, stammering, clutching Helen to them…” Page 701
“Kate comprehends it, their first act of verbal communication, and she can hardly utter the word aloud, in wonder, gratitude, and deprivation; it is a moment in which she simultaneously finds and loses a child.” Page 703




Keller
“It could be even more noiseless, Jimmie, without your tongue running every minute.” Page 688
“If and when you’re a parent, Jimmie, you will understand what separation means.” Page 688
“We don’t just keep our children safe. They keep us safe.” Page 688
“And another is disappointment. In a child.” Page 688
“… You’ve been very good…” Page 691
“I don’t think you know how eager we are to have her back in our arms—“ Page 691
“I miss her…” Page 691
“I think you ask too much, of her and yourself.” Page 692
“With many more to come, I trust. It doesn’t express what we feel, it doesn’t pay our debt.” Page 694
“We’ve learned something too, I hope.” Page 696
“… we—had a little talk, Miss Annie feels that if we indulge Helen in these—“ Page 699
“No one’s interested in hearing your opinion.” Page 699
“I’m afraid you’re the difficulty, Miss Annie …—but I don’t see that we need send her from the table.” Page 699
“Well, she’s not, I think some compromise is called for.” Page 700
“No, I don’t.” Page 700
“… has it never occurred to you that on one occasion you might consummately wrong?” Page 700
“Keller’s stare is unbelieving, even a little fascinated.” Page 700
“Sit down, everyone. Please sit down, Jimmie.” Page 700
“Kate and Keller go to their knees, stammering, clutching Helen to them…” Page 701



James
“But it’s been a short two weeks. I never thought life could be so—noiseless, it went much too quickly for me.” Page 688
“James becomes uncomfortable.” Page 688
“Well, the house has been practically normal, hasn’t it?” Page 688
“I’m sorry. Open my mouth… frogs jump out.” Page 689
“Stand up to the world, Jimmie…” Page 689
“But the world is him.” Page 690
“Kate. At least we—Could you—be my friend?” Page 690
“James studied the two of them, without mockery…” Page 694
“… he pats Annie’s hair in passing, rather to her surprise.” Page 696
“… Jimmie… winks expressionlessly and inclines his head to Helen.” Page 696
“I have an opinion, I think I should—“ Page 699
“… James, on his feet with shaky resolve, interposes his chair between them…” Page 700
“Let her go.” Page 700
“She’s right, Kate’s right, I’m right, and you’re wrong. If you driver her away from here it will be over my dead—chair, has it never occurred to you that on one occasion you might consummately wrong?” Page 700
“… James remains at the table, and with a napkin wipes his damp brow.” Page 701

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