bello
(Twisting.) Another!
bloom
(Screams.) O, it’s hell itself! Every nerve in my body aches like mad!
bello
(Shouts.) Good, by the rumping jumping general! That’s the best bit of news I heard these six weeks. Here, don’t keep me waiting, damn you. (He slaps her face.)
bloom
(Whimpers.) You’re after hitting me. I’ll tell…
bello
Hold him down, girls, till I squat on him.
zoe
Yes. Walk on him! I will.
florry
I will. Don’t be greedy.
kitty
No, me. Lend him to me.
mrs keogh
(Ferociously.) Can I help? (They hold and pinion Bloom.)
bello
(Squats, with a grunt, on Bloom’s upturned face, puffing cigarsmoke, nursing a fat leg.) I see Keating Clay is elected chairman of the Richmond Asylum and bytheby Guinness’s preference shares are at sixteen three quarters. Curse me for a fool that I didn’t buy that lot Craig and Gardner told me about. Just my infernal luck, curse it. And that Goddamned outsider Throwaway at twenty
