A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
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Cabinteely road.
He was for Ireland and Parnell and so was his father: and so was Dante too for one night at the band on the esplanade she had hit a gentleman on the head with her umbrella because he had taken off his hat when the band played GOD SAVE THE QUEEN at the end. Mr Dedalus gave a snort of contempt. --Ah, John, he said. It is true for them. We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be till the end of the chapter. Uncle Charles shook his head, saying: --A bad business! A bad business! Mr Dedalus repeated: --A priest-ridden Godforsaken race! He pointed to the portrait of his grandfather on the wall to his right. --Do you see that old chap up there, John? he said. He was a good Irishman when there was no money in the job. He was condemned to death as a whiteboy. But he had a saying about our clerical friends, that he would never let one of them put his two feet under his mahogany. Dante broke in angrily: |
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