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Ulysses

shortly prior to our meeting if I can so call it, and I was
just looking at those antique statues there. The splendid
proportions of hips, bosom. You simply don’t knock
against those kind of women here. An exception here and

there. Handsome yes, pretty in a way you find but what
I’m talking about is the female form. Besides they have so
little taste in dress, most of them, which greatly enhances a
woman’s natural beauty, no matter what you say.
Rumpled stockings, it may be, possibly is, a foible of mine
but still it’s a thing I simply hate to see.
Interest, however, was starting to flag somewhat all
round and then the others got on to talking about
accidents at sea, ships lost in a fog, goo collisions with
icebergs, all that sort of thing. Shipahoy of course had his
own say to say. He had doubled the cape a few odd times
and weathered a monsoon, a kind of wind, in the China
seas and through all those perils of the deep there was one
thing, he declared, stood to him or words to that effect, a
pious medal he had that saved him.
So then after that they drifted on to the wreck off
Daunt’s rock, wreck of that illfated Norwegian barque
nobody could think of her name for the moment till the
jarvey who had really quite a look of Henry Campbell
remembered it Palme on Booterstown strand. That was the

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