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Ulysses

damned but he got the rope round the poor devil and the
two were hauled up.
—The act of a hero, he said.
At the Dolphin they halted to allow the ambulance car

to gallop past them for Jervis street.
—This way, he said, walking to the right. I want to
pop into Lynam’s to see Sceptre’s starting price. What’s
the time by your gold watch and chain?
M’Coy peered into Marcus Tertius Moses’ sombre
office, then at O’Neill’s clock.
—After three, he said. Who’s riding her?
—O. Madden, Lenehan said. And a game filly she is.
While he waited in Temple bar M’Coy dodged a
banana peel with gentle pushes of his toe from the path to
the gutter. Fellow might damn easy get a nasty fall there
coming along tight in the dark.
The gates of the drive opened wide to give egress to
the viceregal cavalcade.
—Even money, Lenehan said returning. I knocked
against Bantam Lyons in there going to back a bloody
horse someone gave him that hasn’t an earthly. Through
here.
They went up the steps and under Merchants’ arch. A
darkbacked figure scanned books on the hawker’s cart.

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