more when I wouldnt let him lick me in Holles street one night man man
tyrant as ever for the one thing he slept on the floor half the night naked the
way the jews used when somebody dies belonged to them and wouldnt eat
any breakfast or speak a word wanting to be petted so I thought I stood out
enough for one time and let him he does it all wrong too thinking only of his
own pleasure his tongue is too flat or I dont know what he forgets that wethen
I dont Ill make him do it again if he doesnt mind himself and lock him down to
sleep in the coalcellar with the blackbeetles I wonder was it her Josie off her head
with my castoffs hes such a born liar too no hed never have the courage with
a married woman thats why he wants me and Boylan though as for her Denis
as she calls him that forlornlooking spectacle you couldnt call him a husband
yes its some little bitch hes got in with even when I was with him with Milly at
the College races that Hornblower with the childs bonnet on the top on his nob
let us into by the back way he was throwing his sheeps eyes at those two doing
skirt duty up and down I tried to wink at him first no use of course and
thats the way his money goes this is the fruits of Mr Paddy Dignam yes they
were all in great style at the grand funeral in the paper Boylan brought in
if they saw a real officers funeral thatd be something reversed arms muffled
drums the poor horse walking behind in black L Boom and Tom Kernan
that drunken little barrelly man that bit his tongue off falling down the
mens W C drunk in some place or other and Martin Cunningham and
the two Dedaluses and Fanny M Coys husband white head of cabbage
skinny thing with a turn in her eye trying to sing my songs shed want
to be born all over again and her old green dress with the lowneck
as she cant attract them any other way like dabbling on a rainy day
I see it all now plainly and they call that friendship killing and then burying
one another and they all with their wives and families at home more
especially Jack Power keeping that barmaid he does of course his wife is
always sick or going to be sick or just getting better of it and hes a goodlooking
man still though hes getting a bit grey over the ears theyre a nice lot all of
them well theyre not going to get my husband again into their clutches if
I can help it making fun of him then behind his back I know well when he
goes on with his idiotics because he has sense enough not to squander every
penny piece he earns down their gullets and looks after his wife and family
goodfornothings poor Paddy Dignam all the same Im sorry in a way for him
what are his wife and 5 children going to do unless he was insured comical little
teetotum always stuck up in some pub corner and her or her son waiting Bill
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