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Ulysses


                                     —And how is that  basso profondo, Benjamin? Father
                                  Cowley asked.
                                     Cashel Boyle O’Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell,
                                  murmuring, glassyeyed, strode past the Kildare street club.

                                     Ben Dollard frowned and, making suddenly a chanter’s
                                  mouth, gave forth a deep note.
                                     —Aw! he said.
                                     —That’s the style, Mr Dedalus said, nodding to its
                                  drone.
                                     —What about that? Ben Dollard said. Not too dusty?
                                  What?
                                     He turned to both.
                                     —That’ll do, Father Cowley said, nodding also.
                                     The reverend Hugh C. Love walked from the old
                                  chapterhouse of saint Mary’s abbey past James and Charles
                                  Kennedy’s, rectifiers, attended by Geraldines tall and
                                  personable, towards the Tholsel beyond the ford of
                                  hurdles.
                                     Ben Dollard with a heavy list towards the shopfronts
                                  led them forward, his joyful fingers in the air.
                                     —Come along with me to the subsheriff’s office, he
                                  said. I want to show you the new beauty Rock has for a
                                  bailiff. He’s a cross between Lobengula and Lynchehaun.
                                  He’s well worth seeing, mind you. Come along. I saw



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