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Ulysses

living God, you’ll get the surprise of your life now, believe
me, the most unmerciful hiding a man ever bargained for.
You have lashed the dormant tigress in my nature into
fury.

MRS BELLINGHAM: (Shakes her muff and quizzing-
glasses vindictively) Make him smart, Hanna dear. Give him
ginger. Thrash the mongrel within an inch of his life. The
cat-o’-nine-tails. Geld him. Vivisect him.
BLOOM: (Shuddering, shrinking, joins his hands: with
hangdog mien) O cold! O shivery! It was your ambrosial
beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once. (He
offers the other cheek)
MRS YELVERTON BARRY: (Severely) Don’t do so
on any account, Mrs Talboys! He should be soundly
trounced!
THE HONOURABLE MRS MERVYN TALBOYS:
(Unbuttoning her gauntlet violently) I’ll do no such thing.
Pigdog and always was ever since he was pupped! To dare
address me! I’ll flog him black and blue in the public
streets. I’ll dig my spurs in him up to the rowel. He is a
wellknown cuckold. (She swishes her huntingcrop savagely in
the air) Take down his trousers without loss of time. Come
here, sir! Quick! Ready?

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