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of her on account of its being the lord lieutenant. Beyond
Lundy Foot’s from the shaded door of Kavanagh’s
winerooms John Wyse Nolan smiled with unseen coldness
towards the lord lieutenantgeneral and general governor of

Ireland. The Right Honourable William Humble, earl of
Dudley, G. C. V. O., passed Micky Anderson’s all times
ticking watches and Henry and James’s wax smartsuited
freshcheeked models, the gentleman Henry, dernier cri
James. Over against Dame gate Tom Rochford and Nosey
Flynn watched the approach of the cavalcade. Tom
Rochford, seeing the eyes of lady Dudley fixed on him,
took his thumbs quickly out of the pockets of his claret
waistcoat and doffed his cap to her. A charming soubrette,
great Marie Kendall, with dauby cheeks and lifted skirt
smiled daubily from her poster upon William Humble,
earl of Dudley, and upon lieutenantcolonel H. G.
Heseltine, and also upon the honourable Gerald Ward A.
D. C. From the window of the D. B. C. Buck Mulligan
gaily, and Haines gravely, gazed down on the viceregal
equipage over the shoulders of eager guests, whose mass of
forms darkened the chessboard whereon John Howard
Parnell looked intently. In Fownes’s street Dilly Dedalus,
straining her sight upward from Chardenal’s first French
primer, saw sunshades spanned and wheelspokes spinning

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