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Ulysses

affectionate letters that passed between them full of sweet
nothings. First it was strictly Platonic till nature intervened
and an attachment sprang up between them till bit by bit
matters came to a climax and the matter became the talk

of the town till the staggering blow came as a welcome
intelligence to not a few evildisposed, however, who were
resolved upon encompassing his downfall though the thing
was public property all along though not to anything like
the sensational extent that it subsequently blossomed into.
Since their names were coupled, though, since he was her
declared favourite, where was the particular necessity to
proclaim it to the rank and file from the housetops, the
fact, namely, that he had shared her bedroom which came
out in the witnessbox on oath when a thrill went through
the packed court literally electrifying everybody in the
shape of witnesses swearing to having witnessed him on
such and such a particular date in the act of scrambling out
of an upstairs apartment with the assistance of a ladder in
night apparel, having gained admittance in the same
fashion, a fact the weeklies, addicted to the lubric a little,
simply coined shoals of money out of. Whereas the simple
fact of the case was it was simply a case of the husband not
being up to the scratch, with nothing in common between
them beyond the name, and then a real man arriving on

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