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Ulysses

amusement the group of gazers round skipper Murphy’s
nautical chest and then there was no more of her.
—The gunboat, the keeper said.
—It beats me, Mr Bloom confided to Stephen,

medically I am speaking, how a wretched creature like
that from the Lock hospital reeking with disease can be
barefaced enough to solicit or how any man in his sober
senses, if he values his health in the least. Unfortunate
creature! Of course I suppose some man is ultimately
responsible for her condition. Still no matter what the
cause is from ...
Stephen had not noticed her and shrugged his
shoulders, merely remarking:
—In this country people sell much more than she ever
had and do a roaring trade. Fear not them that sell the
body but have not power to buy the soul. She is a bad
merchant. She buys dear and sells cheap.
The elder man, though not by any manner of means an
old maid or a prude, said it was nothing short of a crying
scandal that ought to be put a stop to instanter to say that
women of that stamp (quite apart from any oldmaidish
squeamishness on the subject), a necessary evil, w ere not
licensed and medically inspected by the proper authorities,
a thing, he could truthfully state, he, as a paterfamilias, was

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