Ulysses by James Joyce
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was telling me ...
Hope that dewdrop doesn't come down into his glass. No, snuffled it up. --For near a month, man, before it came off. Sucking duck eggs by God till further orders. Keep him off the boose, see? O, by God, Blazes is a hairy chap. Davy Byrne came forward from the hindbar in tuckstitched shirtsleeves, cleaning his lips with two wipes of his napkin. Herring's blush. Whose smile upon each feature plays with such and such replete. Too much fat on the parsnips. --And here's himself and pepper on him, Nosey Flynn said. Can you give us a good one for the Gold cup? --I'm off that, Mr Flynn, Davy Byrne answered. I never put anything on a horse. --You're right there, Nosey Flynn said. Mr Bloom ate his strips of sandwich, fresh clean bread, with relish of disgust pungent mustard, the feety savour of green cheese. Sips of his wine soothed his palate. Not logwood that. Tastes fuller this weather with the chill off. Nice quiet bar. Nice piece of wood in that counter. Nicely planed. Like the way it curves there. |
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