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Ulysses

all he could personally say on the matter was that as a host
of contingencies, equally relevant to the issue, might occur
ere then it was highly advisable in the interim to try to
make the most of both countries even though poles apart.

Another little interesting point, the amours of whores and
chummies, to put it in common parlance, reminded him
Irish soldiers had as often fought for England as against
her, more so, in fact. And now, why? So the scene
between the pair of them, the licensee of the place
rumoured to be or have been Fitzharris, the famous
invincible, and the other, obviously bogus, reminded him
forcibly as being on all fours with the confidence trick,
supposing, that is, it was prearranged as the lookeron, a
student of the human soul if anything, the others seeing
least of the game. And as for the lessee or keeper, who
probably wasn’t the other person at all, he (B.) couldn’t
help feeling and most properly it was better to give people
like that the goby unless you were a blithering idiot
altogether and refuse to have anything to do with them as
a golden rule in private life and their felonsetting, there
always being the offchance of a Dannyman coming
forward and turning queen’s evidence or king’s now like
Denis or Peter Carey, an idea he utterly repudiated. Quite
apart from that he disliked those careers of wrongdoing

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