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Ulysses

in one another, could safely afford to ignore it as they very
largely did till the matter was put in the hands of a solicitor
who filed a petition for the party wronged in due course.
He, B, enjoyed the distinction of being close to Erin’s

uncrowned king in the flesh when the thing occurred on
the historic fracas when the fallen leader’s, who notoriously
stuck to his guns to the last drop even when clothed in the
mantle of adultery, (leader’s) trusty henchmen to the
number of ten or a dozen or possibly even more than that
penetrated into the printing works of the Insuppressible or
no it was United Ireland (a by no means by the by
appropriate appellative) and broke up the typecases with
hammers or something like that all on account of some
scurrilous effusions from the facile pens of the O’Brienite
scribes at the usual mudslinging occupation reflecting on
the erstwhile tribune’s private morals. Though palpably a
radically altered man he was still a commanding figure
though carelessly garbed as usual with that look of settled
purpose which went a long way with the shillyshallyers till
they discovered to their vast discomfiture that their idol
had feet of clay after placing him upon a pedestal which
she, however, was the first to perceive. As those were
particularly hot times in the general hullaballoo Bloom
sustained a minor injury from a nasty prod of some chap’s

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