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Ulysses

temperamental, no economising or any idea of the sort,
always snapping at the bone for the shadow. So similarly
he had a very shrewd suspicion that Mr Johnny Lever got
rid of some l s d. in the course of his perambulations

round the docks in the congenial atmosphere of the Old
Ireland tavern, come back to Erin and so on. Then as for
the other he had heard not so long before the same
identical lingo as he told Stephen how he simply but
effectually silenced the offender.
—He took umbrage at something or other, that
muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person
declared, I let slip. He called me a jew and in a heated
fashion offensively. So I without deviating from plain facts
in the least told him his God, I mean Christ, was a jew too
and all his family like me though in reality I’m not. That
was one for him. A soft answer turns away wrath. He
hadn’t a word to say for himself as everyone saw. Am I
not right?
He turned a long you are wrong gaze on Stephen of
timorous dark pride at the soft impeachment with a glance
also of entreaty for he seemed to glean in a kind of a way
that it wasn’t all exactly.

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