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Ulysses

Laredo the fun we had running along Williss road to
Europa point twisting in and out all round the other side
of Jersey they were shaking and dancing about in my
blouse like Millys little ones now when she runs up the

stairs I loved looking down at them I was jumping up at
the pepper trees and the white poplars pulling the leaves
off and throwing them at him he went to India he was to
write the voyages those men have to make to the ends of
the world and back its the least they might get a squeeze
or two at a woman while they can going out to be
drowned or blown up somewhere I went up Windmill hill
to the flats that Sunday morning with captain Rubios that
was dead spyglass like the sentry had he said hed have one
or two from on board I wore that frock from the B
Marche paris and the coral necklace the straits shining I
could see over to Morocco almost the bay of Tangier
white and the Atlas mountain with snow on it and the
straits like a river so clear Harry Molly darling I was
thinking of him on the sea all the time after at mass when
my petticoat began to slip down at the elevation weeks
and weeks I kept the handkerchief under my pillow for
the smell of him there was no decent perfume to be got in
that Gibraltar only that cheap peau dEspagne that faded
and left a stink on you more than anything else I wanted

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