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Ulysses

infrequent prevented intervals and with regular frequent
preventive superintendence, to and from female
acquaintances of recognised respectability in the vicinity:
courses of evening instruction specially designed to render

liberal instruction agreeable.
What instances of deficient mental development in his
wife inclined him in favour of the lastmentioned (ninth)
solution?
In disoccupied moments she had more than once
covered a sheet of paper with signs and hieroglyphics
which she stated were Greek and Irish and Hebrew
characters. She had interrogated constantly at varying
intervals as to the correct method of writing the capital
initial of the name of a city in Canada, Quebec. She
understood little of political complications, internal, or
balance of power, external. In calculating the addenda of
bills she frequently had recourse to digital aid. After
completion of laconic epistolary compositions she
abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic
pigment, exposed to the corrosive action of copperas,
green vitriol and nutgall. Unusual polysyllables of foreign
origin she interpreted phonetically or by false analogy or
by both: metempsychosis (met him pike hoses), alias (a
mendacious person mentioned in sacred scripture).

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