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Ulysses

MARY DRISCOLL: (Excitedly) As God is looking
down on me this night if ever I laid a hand to them
oysters!
FIRST WATCH: The offence complained of? Did

something happen?
MARY DRISCOLL: He surprised me in the rere of
the premises, Your honour, when the missus was out
shopping one morning with a request for a safety pin. He
held me and I was discoloured in four places as a result.
And he interfered twict with my clothing.
BLOOM: She counterassaulted.
MARY DRISCOLL: (Scornfully) I had more respect for
the scouringbrush, so I had. I remonstrated with him,
Your lord, and he remarked: keep it quiet.
(General laughter.)
GEORGE FOTTRELL: (Clerk of the crown and peace,
resonantly) Order in court! The accused will now make a
bogus statement.
(Bloom, pleading not guilty and holding a fullblown waterlily,
begins a long unintelligible speech. They would hear what counsel
had to say in his stirring address to the grand jury. He was down
and out but, though branded as a black sheep, if he might say so,
he meant to reform, to retrieve the memory of the past in a purely
sisterly way and return to nature as a purely domestic animal. A

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