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Ulysses

appropriately beside the domestic chamberpot with
apologies to Lindley Murray.
The vicinity of the young man he certainly relished,
educated, distingué and impulsive into the bargain, far and

away the pick of the bunch though you wouldn’t think he
had it in him yet you would. Besides he said the picture
was handsome which, say what you like, it was though at
the moment she was distinctly stouter. And why not? An
awful lot of makebelieve went on about that sort of thing
involving a lifelong slur with the usual splash page of
gutterpress about the same old matrimonial tangle alleging
misconduct with professional golfer or the newest stage
favourite instead of being honest and aboveboard about
the whole business. How they were fated to meet and an
attachment sprang up between the two so that their names
were coupled in the public eye was told in court with
letters containing the habitual mushy and compromising
expressions leaving no loophole to show that they openly
cohabited two or three times a week at some wellknown
seaside hotel and relations, when the thing ran its normal
course, became in due course intimate. Then the decree
nisi and the King’s proctor tries to show cause why and, he
failing to quash it, nisi was made absolute. But as for that
the two misdemeanants, wrapped up as they largely were

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