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Ulysses

chap with the earrings I dont like a man you have to climb
up to to get at I suppose theyre all dead and rotten long
ago besides I dont like being alone in this big barracks of a
place at night I suppose Ill have to put up with it I never

brought a bit of salt in even when we moved in the
confusion musical academy he was going to make on the
first floor drawingroom with a brassplate or Blooms
private hotel he suggested go and ruin himself altogether
the way his father did down in Ennis like all the things he
told father he was going to do and me but I saw through
him telling me all the lovely places we could go for the
honeymoon Venice by moonlight with the gondolas and
the lake of Como he had a picture cut out of some paper
of and mandolines and lanterns O how nice I said
whatever I liked he was going to do immediately if not
sooner will you be my man will you carry my can he
ought to get a leather medal with a putty rim for all the
plans he invents then leaving us here all day youd never
know what old beggar at the door for a crust with his long
story might be a tramp and put his foot in the way to
prevent me shutting it like that picture of that hardened
criminal he was called in Lloyds Weekly news 20 years in
jail then he comes out and murders an old woman for her
money imagine his poor wife or mother or whoever she is

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