Ulysses by James Joyce
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Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit.
Conscience. Yet here's a spot. --That one about the cracked lookingglass of a servant being the symbol of Irish art is deuced good. Buck Mulligan kicked Stephen's foot under the table and said with warmth of tone: --Wait till you hear him on Hamlet, Haines. --Well, I mean it, Haines said, still speaking to Stephen. I was just thinking of it when that poor old creature came in. --Would I make any money by it? Stephen asked. Haines laughed and, as he took his soft grey hat from the holdfast of the hammock, said: --I don't know, I'm sure. He strolled out to the doorway. Buck Mulligan bent across to Stephen and said with coarse vigour: --You put your hoof in it now. What did you say that for? --Well? Stephen said. The problem is to get money. From whom? From the milkwoman or from him. It's a toss up, I think. --I blow him out about you, Buck Mulligan said, and then you come along |
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