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Ulysses

He poured into two teacups two level spoonfuls, four
in all, of Epps’s soluble cocoa and proceeded according to
the directions for use printed on the label, to each adding
after sufficient time for infusion the prescribed ingredients

for diffusion in the manner and in the quantity prescribed.
What supererogatory marks of special hospitality did
the host show his guest?
Relinquishing his symposiarchal right to the moustache
cup of imitation Crown Derby presented to him by his
only daughter, Millicent (Milly), he substituted a cup
identical with that of his guest and served extraordinarily
to his guest and, in reduced measure, to himself the
viscous cream ordinarily reserved for the breakfast of his
wife Marion (Molly).
Was the guest conscious of and did he acknowledge
these marks of hospitality?
His attention was directed to them by his host jocosely,
and he accepted them seriously as they drank in
jocoserious silence Epps’s massproduct, the creature cocoa.
Were there marks of hospitality which he contemplated
but suppressed, reserving them for another and for himself
on future occasions to complete the act begun?
The reparation of a fissure of the length of 1 1/2 inches
in the right side of his guest’s jacket. A gift to his guest of

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