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Ulysses

BELLO: (Satirically) By day you will souse and bat our
smelling underclothes also when we ladies are unwell, and
swab out our latrines with dress pinned up and a dishclout

tied to your tail. Won’t that be nice? (He places a ruby ring
on her finger) And there now! With this ring I thee own.
Say, thank you, mistress.
BLOOM: Thank you, mistress.
BELLO: You will make the beds, get my tub ready,
empty the pisspots in the different rooms, including old
Mrs Keogh’s the cook’s, a sandy one. Ay, and rinse the
seven of them well, mind, or lap it up like champagne.
Drink me piping hot. Hop! You will dance attendance or
I’ll lecture you on your misdeeds, Miss Ruby, and spank
your bare bot right well, miss, with the hairbrush. You’ll
be taught the error of your ways. At night your
wellcreamed braceletted hands will wear fortythreebutton
gloves newpowdered with talc and having delicately
scented fingertips. For such favours knights of old laid
down their lives. (He chuckles) My boys will be no end
charmed to see you so ladylike, the colonel, above all,
when they come here the night before the wedding to
fondle my new attraction in gilded heels. First I’ll have a
go at you myself. A man I know on the turf named
Charles Alberta Marsh (I was in bed with him just now

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