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Ulysses

the rock from them and because I didnt run into mass
often enough in Santa Maria to please her with her shawl
up on her except when there was a marriage on with all
her miracles of the saints and her black blessed virgin with

the silver dress and the sun dancing 3 times on Easter
Sunday morning and when the priest was going by with
the bell bringing the vatican to the dying blessing herself
for his Majestad an admirer he signed it I near jumped out
of my skin I wanted to pick him up when I saw him
following me along the Calle Real in the shop window
then he tipped me just in passing but I never thought hed
write making an appointment I had it inside my petticoat
bodice all day reading it up in every hole and corner while
father was up at the drill instructing to find out by the
handwriting or the language of stamps singing I remember
shall I wear a white rose and I wanted to put on the old
stupid clock to near the time he was the first man kissed
me under the Moorish wall my sweetheart when a boy it
never entered my head what kissing meant till he put his
tongue in my mouth his mouth was sweetlike young I put
my knee up to him a few times to learn the way what did
I tell him I was engaged for for fun to the son of a Spanish
nobleman named Don Miguel de la Flora and he believed
me that I was to be married to him in 3 years time theres

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