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Ulysses

mine gagged and badgered in this fashion by a pack of curs
and laughing hyenas. The Mosaic code has superseded the
law of the jungle. I say it and I say it emphatically, without
wishing for one moment to defeat the ends of justice,

accused was not accessory before the act and prosecutrix
has not been tampered with. The young person was
treated by defendant as if she were his very own daughter.
(Bloom takes J. J. O’Molloy’s hand and raises it to his lips.) I
shall call rebutting evidence to prove up to the hilt that
the hidden hand is again at its old game. When in doubt
persecute Bloom. My client, an innately bashful man,
would be the last man in the world to do anything
ungentlemanly which injured modesty could object to or
cast a stone at a girl who took the wrong turning when
some dastard, responsible for her condition, had worked
his own sweet will on her. He wants to go straight. I
regard him as the whitest man I know. He is down on his
luck at present owing to the mortgaging of his extensive
property at Agendath Netaim in faraway Asia Minor, slides
of which will now be shown. (To Bloom) I suggest that
you will do the handsome thing.
BLOOM: A penny in the pound.
(The image of the lake of Kinnereth with blurred cattle
cropping in silver haze is projected on the wall. Moses Dlugacz,

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