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SimonDedalus

  1. His Excellency graciously returns my greeting.
  2. On Ormond quay, steering my way from the greenhouse for the subsheriff's office, I stand still in midstreet and bring my hat low.
  3. I hand her two pennies. @DILLYDEDALUS -- Here. Get a glass of milk for yourself and a bun or a something. I'll be home shortly.
  4. I nod. @DILLYDEDALUS -- I will. I looked all along the gutter in O'Connell street. I'll try this one now.
  5. I draw forth a handful of copper coins. @DILLYDEDALUS -- I got 2 shillings from Jack Power and I spent twopence for a shave for the funeral.
  6. @DILLYDEDALUS -- I'm going to show you a little trick. I'll leave you all where Jesus left the jews. Look, there's all I have.
  7. @DILLYDEDALUS -- Watch him. It's instructive. I wonder will he allow us to talk.
  8. @THELACQUEY -- Curse your bloody blatant soul.
  9. I stop. @DILLYDEDALUS -- Well, what is it?
  10. @DILLYDEDALUS -- Wouldn't care if I was stretched out stiff. He's dead. The man upstairs is dead. I leave her and walk on.
  11. @DILLYDEDALUS -- But wait awhile. You'll all get a short shrift and a long day from me. Low blackguardism! I'm going to get rid of you.
  12. @DILLYDEDALUS -- Wait awhile. You're like the rest of them, are you? An insolent pack of little bitches since your poor mother died.
  13. I hand her a shilling. @DILLYDEDALUS -- See if you can do anything with that.
  14. @DILLYDEDALUS -- I was not then. Was it the little nuns taught you to be so saucy? Here.
  15. @DILLYDEDALUS -- How do you know that
  16. @DILLYDEDALUS -- Where would I get money? There is no-one in Dublin would lend me fourpence.
  17. I draw myself upright and tug again at my moustache.
  18. I let my head sink suddenly down and forward, hunching my shoulders and dropping my underjaw.
  19. @DILLYDEDALUS -- Stand up straight, girl. You'll get curvature of the spine. Do you know what you look like?
  20. @DILLYDEDALUS -- Stand up straight for the love of the Lord Jesus. Are you trying to imitate your uncle John the cornetplayer?