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Ulysses

him forcibly of father and sister, failing to throw much
light on the subject, however, he brought to mind
instances of cultured fellows that promised so brilliantly
nipped in the bud of premature decay and nobody to

blame but themselves. For instance there was the case of
O’Callaghan, for one, the halfcrazy faddist, respectably
connected though of inadequate means, with his mad
vagaries among whose other gay doings when rotto and
making himself a nuisance to everybody all round he was
in the habit of ostentatiously sporting in public a suit of
brown paper (a fact). And then the usual denouement after
the fun had gone on fast and furious he got 1190 landed
into hot water and had to be spirited away by a few
friends, after a strong hint to a blind horse from John
Mallon of Lower Castle Yard, so as not to be made
amenable under section two of the criminal law
amendment act, certain names of those subpoenaed being
handed in but not divulged for reasons which will occur
to anyone with a pick of brains. Briefly, putting two and
two together, six sixteen which he pointedly turned a deaf
ear to, Antonio and so forth, jockeys and esthetes and the
tattoo which was all the go in the seventies or thereabouts
even in the house of lords because early in life the
occupant of the throne, then heir apparent, the other

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