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Resplandor entre Tinieblas - Capítulo 52. Una leal sierva

Resplandor entre Tinieblas

Por WingzemonX

Capítulo 52. Una leal sierva

La noche anterior, el avión de Ann Thorn aterrizó en el Aeropuerto Nacional Ronald Reagan, en Washington D. C., justo al mismo tiempo que en Eola se desataba todo aquel caos de la mano de Leena Klammer y Lily Sullivan. ¿El motivo oficial de su viaje?, negocios, por supuesto; no sabía con exactitud cuáles, pero dejó gente en Chicago que se encargaría de afinar esos detalles y tapar los hoyos. ¿El motivo real del viaje?, el único de importancia real en esos momentos: Damien y su nueva renuencia, por no llamarla rebeldía.

A la mañana siguiente de su llegada, irremediablemente se enteraría de lo ocurrido en Oregón, y aquella noticia no haría más que provocarle un dolor más de cabeza, como si le encajaran un clavo oxidado en el centro de la frente. Para esos momentos todo el país buscaba a esa tal Leena y a las dos niñas que, supuestamente, llevaba con ella contra su voluntad. Y lo peor era que Ann sabía perfectamente hacia dónde se dirigían, y que potencialmente podrían arrastrar toda esa atención indeseada hacia Damien, y por consiguiente hacia todos ellos. ¿Y todo ese riesgo para qué?, ¿por un mero capricho? ¿Cómo era posible que su querido sobrino no se diera cuenta de que se estaba metiendo en algo tan peligroso y estúpido? Le preocupaba, y a la vez decepcionaba, su actitud.

Pero no podía estresarse por cada nueva noticia que le llegara al respecto. Estaba ahí justamente para intentar encontrar una forma de arreglar todo ese horrible desastre, después de todo; aunque los medios le resultaran molestos.

Muy temprano esa mañana, un elegante BMV gris oscuro la recogió en las puertas de su hotel y la llevó directo al lugar pactado de su reunión. Le acompañaban en el vehículo el chofer y dos hombres de seguridad; no de su seguridad, sino de la persona con la que se iba a reunir. Había hecho ese viaje totalmente sola, sin guardaespaldas ni asistentes. Se suponía que todos eran aliados, Discípulos de la Guardia, parte de la misma Hermandad. Aún así, Ann se sorprendió a sí misma sintiéndose hasta cierto punto indefensa y expuesta, rodeada de personas en las que no confiaba del todo.

Grandiosa Hermandad la que tenían.

El vehículo se estacionó justo delante de la Iglesia Católica de San Patricio, y uno de los hombres que la acompañaban le abrió la puerta. Ann bajó del vehículo, no sin antes agradecer las atenciones. Los dos hombres de seguridad la acompañaron hacia el interior de la iglesia, mientras el chofer daba la vuelta. A pesar de todo, Ann caminaba con un porte firme y seguro, sin perder ni un momento el balance sobre sus tacones, y luciendo un hermoso vestido y abrigo negro, bastante recatados y acordes con el sitio al que se dirigía. Pero eso sí: sus labios estaban pintados de ese rojo intenso que tanto la caracterizaba, casi combinando con las puertas de aquel recinto.

Una vez dentro de la capilla, sus dos acompañantes se quedaron en la entrada, mientras ella avanzó hacia la cuarta fila, sentándose en una de la bancas de madera de la derecha. Enderezó su espalda, colocó su cartera sobre sus piernas y aguardó. El sitio se encontraba totalmente solo, y en un silencio demasiado profundo, incluso para ser una iglesia. De hecho, para ser una iglesia católica, le pareció que el lugar era algo pequeño, y su altar un tanto modesto, pero supuso que cumplía su cometido; cualquiera que ese fuera. Años atrás, se hubiera reído de la ironía de hacer una reunión como esa justo en un sitio así; ahora el hecho le resultaba un tanto indiferente.

Como esperaba, la persona que iría a ver la hizo a esperar más de la cuenta, quizás en un burdo intento de hacerse el interesante o demostrar cierta superioridad sobre ella. Pero al final apareció, ingresando por las mismas puertas que ella. Avanzó con su paso firme por el pasillo al centro de las bancas, y siguió de largo tras pasar a lado de su fila. Se paró frente al altar e hizo con su mano la señal de la persignación. Ann se preguntó a quién intentaba impresionar con eso, si eran los únicos ahí. O, ¿era acaso algún tipo de burla hacia el Nazareno que los veía desde aquella cruz de piedra en el altar?; quizás.

Una vez que terminó, se giró de regreso sin voltear a verla, pero ella sí lo vio a él. Cada vez que se reunía con John Lyons, éste le parecía más viejo. Su cabello, o lo que quedaba de él, era totalmente blanco y corto, como la barba de candado perfectamente arreglada que adornaba su rostro pálido y anciano. Era un hombre de complexión gruesa y fuerte a pesar de su edad, y lo demostraba en su paso firme y seguro. Vestía un muy elegante traje color azul, con camisa blanca y corbata roja; un porte bastante republicano.

Aunque tenía la apariencia de poder ser el abuelito bonachón y anticuado de cualquiera (o quizás vendedor de pollos fritos), ese hombre era uno de los Apóstoles de más alto rango y poder dentro de la Hermandad, además del superior directo e Ann; uno de los últimos miembros con vida de la antigua Aquelarre que los había precedido hace ya bastantes años. Era alguien que imponía respeto y miedo entre los demás Discípulos de la Guardia… pero no tanto en Ann. Pocas personas o cosas la intimidaban, y John Lyons no era una de ellas. Aun así, respetaba las jerarquías, así como el poder y la experiencia que el viejo asesor político y corredor de bolsas ostentaba; no hubiera tenido que recurrir a él si no fuera así.

Lyons se sentó en la fila delante de ella, virándose hacia el altar y dándole por completo la espalda. Ann bufó al ver esto, aunque más mentalmente que otra cosa. ¿Enserio eso era necesario?, ¿o su vejo superior solamente había visto demasiadas películas viejas de espías?

—Espero que esto sea importante —murmuró Lyons con voz grave y solemne—. Tengo demasiados asuntos que atender como para perder el tiempo en tonterías.

Ann soltó una nada discreta risilla irónica.

—Los políticos de esta ciudad podrán lamerse las bolas a sí mismos por un par de horas sin ti, Lyons —le respondió la mujer de negro, sarcástica. Aquel comentario pareció que el hombre de barba olvidara su acto de James Bond, pues inconscientemente se giró hacia ella por encima de su hombro. Su mirada radiaba bastante molestia, aunque la mujer sabía que no era sólo por su chascarrillo.

—Todos hacemos nuestra parte en esto, Ann —le respondió Lyons con seriedad—. Y por lo que he escuchado, tú no has cumplido del todo bien la tuya últimamente. —La mirada de Ann se endureció al escuchar ello, que sonaba claramente como un reclamo—. ¿A eso viniste? ¿Quieres que te encontremos un remplazo? Porque encantado busco a alguien que sí pueda con la labor que te encomendamos.

—Yo he cumplido lealmente mi deber con la Hermandad —respondió Ann, defensiva—. He sacrificado mucho por esta causa, y tú los sabes.

—Has ganado mucho también. Quizás más de lo que merecías.

—Si a eso le llamas ganancia. Vine buscando tu ayuda y consejo, pero tienes una gran facilidad para hacer que me arrepienta de siquiera esperarlo de ti —señaló la mujer con un nada sutil enojo—. La situación es seria, y no me avergüenza admitir que no sé qué hacer. Damien está fuera de control. Desde que conoció a esa chica en New Hampshire, sencillamente ya no confía en mí, ni en ti, ni en ninguno de nosotros. Piensa que le hemos estado mintiendo y manipulando todo este tiempo.

—Es sólo una estúpida rabieta de adolescente —musitó Lyons, agitando una mano con desinterés en el aire—, derivada sin lugar a duda de tus mimos constantes.

—¿Mimos? ¿Acaso me estás diciendo que lo consiento?

—Tú, y todos a su alrededor. —Lyons se volteó mejor en su banca, hasta poder verla casi de frente. Sus ojos, pequeños pero penetrantes, la observaron fijamente como un padre regañando a su hija—. Lo tratan con sumisión y miedo, agachando la cabeza ante él y haciendo todo lo que diga y mande. No es raro que las cosas llegaran a este punto.

—¿Y qué esperabas? —Respondió Ann, alzando quizás de más la voz considerando el sitio en el que estaban—. ¿Acaso olvidas quién es?

—Tú eres quien lo ha olvidado, Ann. Nosotros no servimos a Damien Thorn, sino a una fuerza y propósito mucho más grande que él, o que cualquiera. Tu deber era educarlo y encaminarlo para cumplir el papel por el que vino a este mundo. Pero has permitido que olvide su deber, y haga su voluntad a diestra y siniestra, como si fuera el mismísimo Dios.

—¿Con qué derecho me acusas de eso? ¿Que nosotros lo tratamos con sumisión y agachamos la cabeza? ¿Cuándo fue la última vez que lo viste siquiera? Le tienes tanto miedo como nosotros, o incluso más, porque sabes que no le agradas ni un poco…

Oyeron en ese momento el sonido de las puertas de la iglesia abrirse, por lo que ambos guardaron silencio. Una mujer con un hábito de monja totalmente negro, pasó entre los dos hombres de seguridad en la entrada y siguió de largo su camino por el pasillo central de la iglesia. No podían como tal prohibirle la entrada a alguien (eso hubiera sido demasiado sospechoso). Cuando la mujer pasó a su lado, Lyons se enderezó un poco en su asiento y Ann alzó su mirada hacia el frente. La monja avanzó hacia el altar, en donde se persignó, y entonces bajó con cuidado hasta colocarse de rodillas en el suelo y juntar sus manos al frente en oración.

Ann y Lyons permanecieron callados unos segundos, antes de que éste último decidiera ponerse de pie. Ann pensó por un momento que quizás se iría, dejando su conversación sin terminar; era bastante capaz de hacerlo. Sin embargo, lo que hizo fue pasarse a su fila, y ahora sí sentarse a su lado. Posiblemente ahora que tenían compañía, debían estar más cerca para poder hablar más despacio. Aquella interrupción les ayudó además a calmar un poco sus ánimos, que evidentemente se estaban ya calentando.

—¿Cuál es el motivo real de esta rebeldía repentina? —cuestionó Lyons con tono más neutro.

—Ya te lo dije, fue esa chica que conoció hace meses —respondió Ann, despacio.

—¿Ya la identificaste?

—No, pero tampoco me he enfocado mucho en eso. Su identidad es insignificante comparada con lo que le mostró. Al enterarse de que hay otros con habilidades especiales rondando por ahí, ahora siente que en realidad lo que hace no es tan único, y que todo lo que le hemos dicho hasta ahora sobre su naturaleza es una mentira. Y no se sacará esa idea de la cabeza hasta que él mismo decida si es verdad o no. Por eso está buscando entre esos fenómenos a aquellos que pudieran ser como él.

—Entonces déjalo que haga su investigación —expresó Lyons, encogiéndose de hombros—. El chico no es ningún idiota; con el tiempo se dará cuenta de la gran diferencia que existe entre ellos y él.

—¿Y cuánto tomará eso? —Replicó Ann—. Y, ¿qué tantas locuras hará en el proceso?, especialmente contra nosotros. Sabes bien que este plan tiene sus pasos bien establecidos, y su renuencia a obedecer lo pone todo en peligro. Hay tres niñas que está obsesionado por conocer, y que cree que pudieran ser la respuesta que busca. Y las tres están haciendo demasiado ruido, y llamando una atención que ninguno desea.

—Lo sé, ya vi las noticias. De momento no hay nada que nos relacione, ni a ningún otro miembro de la Hermandad.

—Por ahora. Damien las está esperando en Los Ángeles, y se rehúsa a volver a Chicago hasta que las vea. No sé qué pasará cuando al fin las conozca; no sé si eso hará que desista al fin de su cruzada, o se aferre aún más a ésta y cometa más imprudencias. Una de ellas ni siquiera es una niña, sino una mujer adulta, y por lo que investigué bastante manipuladora.

—Si te estresan tanto esas tres niñas, sólo mátalas.

Ann soltó una pequeña risa sarcástica, casi de manera involuntaria, al oír tal propuesta.

—Así de fácil, ¿no? ¿En quién crees que sospechará primero si algo les pasa? Son como sus juguetes nuevos. Hacer algo como eso de forma descuidada, sería nuestra sentencia de muerte.

Ambos permanecieron en silencio, quizás digiriendo por separado todo lo que habían hablado. Un par de minutos después, la monja volvió a persignarse, se puso de pie, y caminó hacia un costado, introduciéndose en una de las puertas laterales. Cuando despareció de sus vistas, Lyons se puso de pie y se acomodó su traje y abrigo lo mejor posible.

—Bien —murmuró—, si no te satisface mi ayuda y consejo, entonces consultaré este tema con Adrian.

Los ojos de Ann se abrieron por completo, llenos de asombro al oír tal sugerencia, o… más bien era casi como una advertencia.

—No creo que sea necesario molestarlo con esto… —respondió la mujer de negro, intentando sonar tranquila.

—Creí que habías dicho que era un asunto serio —exclamó Lyons con ironía—. Si alguien sabe cómo poner a Damien en línea, es él. Además, aprovecharé la visita para que discutamos tu posición, querida Ann.

—¿Mi posición? —Soltó la Thorn, a la defensiva, poniéndose también de pie. Lyons la volteó a ver con un porte tan alzado y prepotente, que le resultó casi ofensivo.

—Podamos resolver o no esto, es evidente que el muchacho ya no confiará en ti de la misma forma de aquí en adelante. Debemos prevenirlo y replantear el plan, si así lo requiere. Tú lo entiendes.

Ann enmudeció. Por supuesto que lo entendía, y demasiado bien. Entendía que la broma del inicio sobre buscarle un remplazo, no era para una broma en realidad.

—No puedes alejarme de Damien —declaró Ann, fervientemente—. Soy prácticamente su madre. Adrian no lo permitirá.

Un pequeño sonido gutural, similar a una risa ahogada, se hizo notar desde la garganta del hombre de barba blanca.

—No te sientas tan confiada, que ninguno de nosotros es indispensable en esto. Recuerda que Baylock estuvo en tu lugar primero… y mira cómo terminó.

La mención tan irrespetuosa, casi impertinente, de su antigua mentora hizo que Ann se enfureciera incluso más.

—¿Me estás amenazando? —Inquirió con dureza. Lyons sólo la observó en silencio unos segundos, y luego se giró hacia la salida, comenzando a andar hacia ésta.

—Esta charla se terminó —indicó mientras se alejaba—. Te mantendré informada de la decisión de Adrian. Mientras tanto, no le quites los ojos de encima al muchacho. Sé una leal sierva, y cumple con tu deber hasta el último momento.

Lyons pasó entre los dos guardias, y salió por las puertas de la iglesia, dejando detrás de una Ann aturdida, molesta, y aún más preocupada que antes. Ir a hablar con ese anciano había resultado ser un terrible error.

Los dos hombres parecían preparados para irse, pero Ann no se dirigió a la salida de inmediato. Se sentó de nuevo en la banca para pensar unos segundos lo que haría a continuación. “Sé una leal sierva, y cumple con tu deber hasta el último momento,” le había dicho ese desgraciado. Era una leal sierva, lo había sido toda su vida. ¿Y de qué le había servido?, ¿a dónde la había llevado?

No tenía otra opción: necesitaba tomar algunas medidas de seguridad, y rápido.

— — — —

Una vez que Ann salió de la iglesia, el mismo BMV la esperaba al frente. El chofer se encontraba fuera, apoyado contra el cofre mientras leía el periódico. Al ver que ella y los dos hombres de seguridad se aproximaban, dobló el diario y se dispuso a abrir la puerta trasera para que Ann subiera. En un momento, la mujer estuvo totalmente rodeada por los tres, y eso la intranquilizó. Sabía que, al menos de momento, no tenía por qué temer. Lyons no se atrevería a hacer algo contra ella antes de consultarlo con Adrian, y aunque lo hiciera confiaba en que éste intercedería por ella, al menos por los viejos tiempos. Pero todo eso su intuición parecía no entenderlo del todo.

—Necesito hacer una llamada privada —les indicó a los tres hombres, estando justo delante de la puerta abierta—. ¿Pueden dejarme sola unos momentos? —Los tres se miraron entre ellos en silencio, pero con duda tangible en sus miradas—. ¿Por favor? —Añadió Ann, esbozando una amplia y hermosa sonrisa en sus labios rojos, más amenazante que amistosa.

Hasta que se decidiera lo contrario, Ann seguía siendo parte de la Hermandad, y una Apóstol de la Bestia de un rango bastante superior a cualquiera de esos individuos. Quizás una de las instrucciones que Lyons les había dado era no dejarla sola, pero confiaba en que no se hubiera tomado una molestia como esa sólo por ella. Al final, parecía que tenía razón, pues los hombres asintieron y se apartaron del vehículo, parándose a los pies de las escaleras de San Patricio. Ann agradeció con un ademán de su cabeza y se sentó en el vehículo cerrando la puerta.

No perdió el tiempo. Rápidamente sacó su teléfono y buscó entre sus contactos a Verónica Selvaggio. A esa hora debía de estar en clases, o quizás tendría suerte y la encontraría en un descanso entre hora y hora. La suerte, o Satanás, estaban de su lado, pues su joven becaria le respondió rápidamente.

—¿Hola? —sonó la voz de la joven universitaria al otro lado de la línea. Al fondo se oían varias voces y sonidos, así que supuso que debía estar en el patio.

—Verónica, ¿cómo estás? —saludó Ann, procurando ser jovial.

—Bien, gracias. ¿Dónde estás? Creí que volvías hoy.

—Mi regreso tendrá que atrasarse un poco. Dime, ¿sabes si Damien volvió a Chicago?

Hubo un momento de duda por parte de Verónica, antes de responderle.

—No que yo sepa. En la empresa no se ha parado, y creo que el torneo de tenis en el que iba a participar es en estos días.

Claro, el dichoso torneo de tenis que le mencionó antes de que lo dejara; una de las tantas excusas que se inventó para quedarse en Los Ángeles. Sabía muy bien que no se iría de ahí hasta que esas dos niñas se encontraran con él, pero tenía la vaga esperanza de que quizás hubiera recapacitado aunque fuera un poco.

—Verónica, necesito que me hagas un favor —indicó la CEO de Thorn Industries con seriedad—. Haré un viaje exprés fuera del país. Si alguien pregunta por mi paradero, tú sólo di que sigo aquí en Washington, ¿está bien? Ya veré como hago para cubrir mi rastro por acá.

—De acuerdo… —Respondió Verónica, algo insegura por la extraña y repentina petición—. Pero, ¿a dónde vas realmente?

—No te lo puedo decir. Descuida, volveré rápido. Mientras tanto, necesito que vayas a Los Ángeles y vigiles a Damien por mí.

—¿Qué? —Exclamó alto la joven al teléfono, sorprendida, o incluso algo asustada—. ¿Yo? ¿Por qué yo?

—Eres en la única que puedo confiar. Necesito que estés cerca de él, y me reportes todo lo que haga. Especialmente si llega a reunirse con esas niñas que está esperando.

—Pero… no puedo hacer eso…

Hubo una pausa prolongada, y entonces todo el barullo del fondo se calmó. Ann supuso que había buscado un lugar más solo y tranquilo. Y eso, posiblemente, era porque el tono de la llamada estaba por cambiar un poco.

—Mamá… —masculló Verónica al teléfono, y oírla llamarla de esa forma le provocó un pequeño apretón en el pecho a Ann, especialmente por el tono de miedo que la acompañaba—. Sabes muy bien que él me odia. Si me aparezco allá…

—No le tengas miedo, no te hará nada —declaró Ann con firmeza—. Aunque no sepa qué eres realmente de mí, sabe que te tengo aprecio. Y aún a pesar de su enojo, en el fondo sigue teniéndome el suficiente respeto y cariño como para no lastimarte.

—¿Me apostarías a mí en ello? —Soltó Verónica, inquisitiva. Ann, sin embargo, guardó silencio.

Aunque quería pensar que lo que decía era así, la verdad era que en esos momentos no le constaba nada. No entendía qué era lo que Damien podría pensar de ella en esos momentos; quizás ni el propio muchacho lo tenía claro. Ambos habían sido tan unidos desde la primera vez que se conocieron. Madre e hijo, o incluso un poco más…

“Yo siempre le he pertenecido…”

Antes creía conocerlo tan bien, pero ahora su actitud era totalmente otra, y se había vuelto impredecible. No podía asegurar su propia seguridad, mucho menos la de su hija perdida, de la que tuvo que separarse en cuanto nació para así poder cumplir con el papel que la Hermandad tenía para ella. Sólo hasta que pudo escalar lo suficiente dentro de los Discípulos de la Guardia, y convertirse en una Apóstol consagrada que demostró ciegamente su fidelidad y apego a la causa, pudo tener la libertad de buscarla y reunirse de nuevo con ella. Y ahora la estaba prácticamente arrojando a las fauces de la Bestia…

Verónica de seguro percibió sus dudas, pues tras un rato un profundo suspiro de frustración se escapó de sus labios.

—Supongo que no debo sorprenderme —musitó la joven—. Siempre lo has preferido a él. Estuviste a su lado todo este tiempo, mientras que a mí…

—Verónica, por favor —le interrumpió Ann tajantemente antes de que prosiguiera—. Sabes que te quiero, y mucho. Si no fuera así, no te hubiera buscado en cuanto tuve la oportunidad de hacerlo.

Ann tomó una pausa, y cuando volvió a hablar su voz temblaba un poco. Se permitió, luego de mucho tiempo, mostrarse dudosa e indefensa ante alguien.

—Estoy desesperada, hija… —le susurró con voz suave—. Por primera vez me siento insegura y rodeada de enemigos. No puedo confiar en Lyons, y ahora ni siquiera en Damien. Sólo te tengo a ti. Por favor… te necesito como mi aliada en esto.

Verónica permaneció callada por un largo rato, tanto que Ann incluso pensó que le había colgado. Sin embargo, su respiración se hizo presente, y lo hicieron después sus palabras.

—No me hará caso, y sabrá de inmediato que tú me mandaste a vigilarlo —señaló Verónica con desánimo.

—Eso es exactamente lo que necesito —aclaró Ann—. Sólo que no crea que tiene cabida libre para hacer lo que le plazca.

—No creo que mi presencia lo detenga de hacerlo de todas formas. Pero, está bien… lo haré.

—Gracias —musitó Ann con alivio—. Mantenme informada, por favor. Te quiero, mi niña.

—Y yo a ti, mamá.

Colgaron casi inmediatamente después. La CEO se quedó sentada y en silencio, contemplando la pantalla apagada del celular, preguntándose si acaso había hecho lo correcto. ¿Era realmente necesario exponer a Verónica de esa forma? Como fuera, ya estaba hecho. Debía ocuparse por ella en esos momentos, y en el viaje rápido que tendría que hacer, intentando pasar lo más desapercibida posible.

Realmente no esperaba tener que hacer ese viaje tan pronto, e incluso tenía esperanzas de nunca tener que hacerlo. Pero las circunstancias así lo requerían. Sólo esperaba que todo se mantuviera en orden en su ausencia. Esperaba que Damien, y especialmente esas tres mocosas, no hicieran alguna otra locura, donde quiera que estuviesen en esos momentos.

— — — —

A pesar de lo ajetreado que había sido su escape, y posterior llegada al motel, el resto de la noche fue relativamente tranquila para Esther, Lily y Samara. Una vez que las tres cenaron, se acostaron a dormir lo mejor que pudieron. Lily había pedido dormir sola en la cama y su petición fue cumplida, por lo que a Esther y Samara les tocó compartir.

Las tres estaban más que agotadas. Lily quiso quedarse un poco más viendo televisión, pero en realidad no duró mucho y cayó rendida a los pocos minutos. Esther durmió con su pistola bajo su almohada, algo que casi siempre la había hecho sentir más segura, pero igualmente estuvo bastante en alerta por cualquier sonido sospechoso que viniera de afuera. Samara, por su parte, pasó gran parte de la madrugada moviéndose de un lado a otro, procurando su despertar a su compañera. Dormir no era lo suyo, pero al final logró conciliar el sueño un par de horas no continúas. Extrañamente, no hubo ninguna pesadilla.

Aunque se despertó en unas pocas ocasiones, más que nada debido a su pierna, Lily fue quizás la que mejor durmió de las tres. Cuando al fin amaneció y era hora de levantarse, lo que la terminó despertando no fueron los rayos del sol, sino, curiosamente, una melodiosa voz.

—Tienes que dar un poco… tomar un poco… —escuchó como alguien cantaba con bastante afinación, y muy cerca de ella. La niña de Portland se sentó en su cama, tallándose un poco sus ojos adormilados y bostezando mientras salía de su letargo—. Y deja que tu corazón se rompa un poco —continuó la voz—. Es la historia de… es la gloria del amor…

La vista de Lily se aclaró poco a poco y su mente terminó de salir de su inconsciencia. Se viró hacia un lado, en dirección a la otra cama. Esther y Samara ya estaban despiertas, y ésta última se encontraba sentada en la orilla, mientras la otra a sus espaldas al parecer pasaba un cepillo por su largo y lacio cabello negro, al tiempo que cantaba esa cursi canción. Aquello le pareció tan extraño en un inicio, que por un momento Lily pensó que seguía soñando. Esther se veía de mucho mejor humor, y Samara… bueno, ella seguía muy parecido a cómo estaba el día anterior: callada y con su rostro serio, aunque ya no tan asustado.

—Qué hermoso cabello tienes, ¿te lo han dicho? —Señaló Esther mientras continuaba con sus cepilladas. El cabello de Samara era realmente largo, y caía sobre sus hombros y espalda como una cascada de noche—. Apuesto a que no podías cepillarlo como se debe en ese horrible lugar.

—Más o menos —susurró Samara, sonriendo algo cohibida.

Lily siguió contemplando aquella escena en silencio por unos segundos más, antes de que las otras dos se percataran de que en efecto ya no estaba dormida.

—Buenos días, pequeña demonio —le saludó Esther con tono burlón—. ¿Dormiste bien? —Lily no respondió—. ¿Quieres que también te peine, querida?

—Por supuesto que no —respondió la castaña de mala gana. Esther se encogió de hombros, y continuó pasando el cepillo por la larga melena de la otra niña. Reanudó también su canción.

—Tienes que reír un poco… llorar un poco… hasta que las nubes rueden un poco. Es la historia de… es la gloria del amor…

—¿Una canción vieja de tu época? —Cuestionó Lily con ironía. Esther sólo le echó una mirada rápida y le sonrió, pero más con animosidad que otra cosa.

—¿Quieres que te haga una cola o una trenza? —le preguntó Esther a Samara, colocando sus manos sobre sus hombros con un gesto amistoso que para Lily desbordaba falsedad. Samara respondió, negando lentamente con su cabeza.

—Me gusta traerlo suelto, para… —calló de golpe, dejando su frase al aire. Aun así, Esther pareció adivinarlo.

—¿Para cubrir tu cara con él? —le cuestionó con tono amable, a lo que la niña de Moesko respondió asintiendo. Siempre se había sentido más cómoda si podía, aunque fuera un poco, esconderse detrás de sus largos cabellos oscuros; como un escudo de seguridad—. Te entiendo, descuida. —Esther le dio un par de palmaditas reconfortantes en su hombro, y se paró de la cama—. Alístense; salimos en cuanto estén preparadas.

Esther se dirigió entonces hacia el baño, tarareando en voz alta la misma canción de antes.

—Mientras estemos los dos, tenemos el mundo y todos sus encantos. Y cuando el mundo termine con nosotros, nos tendremos en brazos…

Se veía de mucho mejor humor, y eso a Lily le provocaba incluso más desconfianza que antes. La observó fijamente hasta que se perdió detrás de la puerta del baño. Luego, miró hacia Samara, quien se estaba colocando de nuevo sus sandalias nuevas.

—Si fuera tú no estaría tan confiada cerca de la anciana —le advirtió de pronto, tomando por sorpresa la niña de Moesko—. Te está manipulando, ¿no lo ves? Quiere que pienses que es tu amiga y ponerte de su lado. De esa forma, si en algún momento ocurre de nuevo algo entre ella y yo, tú salgas a defenderla. Lo sé, porque es lo que yo haría… si no estuviera tan adolorida y harta de todo esto…

Lily presionó un poco su mano contra su muslo adolorido, intentando calmar de esa forma el dolor que se había vuelto muy intenso esa mañana; quizás por todo lo que tuvo que andar en aquel hospital, o por tener que subir las estúpidas escaleras de ese motelucho. Samara la observó con preocupación; no parecía estar bien en lo absoluto.

—Pero te lo advierto —continuó Lily con voz seca—. No quieres ponerte en mi contra. No sé aún qué trucos tengas guardados, pero te aseguro que los míos son mejores.

—¿Por qué se llevan tan mal ustedes dos? —Cuestionó Samara tras haberse quedado callada unos segundos.

—¿Quién crees que me hizo esto? —Musitó Lily con molestia, sujetándose su adolorido muslo con ambas manos—. Y anoche la escuché hablando de cortarnos los cuellos en cuanto tuviera la oportunidad.

—¿Por qué haría eso?

—¿Por qué haría eso? —La niña Portland dejó salir una sonora risa sarcástica—. Porqué está loca, ¿no te has dado cuenta? Enserio tienes mucho que aprender si quieres sobrevivir en este juego en el que te has metido.

Lily tomó entonces el control de la televisión y se volvió a recostar en la cama. Apuntó a la tele con el control y ésta se encendió.

—Ella dijo que… —intentó decir Samara, pero Lily la interrumpió.

—Me importa un pepino lo que ella haya dicho.

Y sin más, se quedó acostada, cambiando entre los canales. Samara, dudosa, se puso de pie y comenzó a recoger la basura y las pocas cosas que tenían ahí. A Lily le desesperaba su actitud tan sumisa. De seguro siempre hacía todo lo que le decía. O, como acababa de matar a su mami, quería quedar bien con una nueva. Pero qué mala elección de persona había hecho si era eso.

Luego de estar parando en diferentes canales, Lily se detuvo en un noticiero, presentado por una reportera de largo cabello rubio y ojos verdes. Estaba por volver a cambiarle, cuando casualmente escuchó de lo que estaba hablando, llamando casi de inmediato su interés.

—…anoche se suscitó otro tiroteo más en un hospital de Oregón —pronunciaba la mujer de la televisión mientras miraba hacia la cámara. Samara, al oír esto, igualmente dejó lo que estaba haciendo y volteó expectante—. Esta vez en la comunidad de Eola, cerca de Salem. Las autoridades no han dado detalles, pero se estima que el incidente pudo haber dejado un saldo de al menos cinco muertos, diez heridos, y una paciente, una niña de sólo doce años, desaparecida, y presuntamente secuestrada.

“Esa soy yo,” pensó Samara. ¿Estaba secuestrada? Ciertamente era una forma de verlo. Mientras cavilaba en ello, inconscientemente se sentó en la orilla de la cama, sin quitar sus ojos y oídos de la noticia.

La presentadora continuó.

—Según declaraciones no oficiales de testigos, la responsable podría ser de nuevo la apodada por los medios como la Niña Asesina, la mujer de nacionalidad estonia identificada como Leena Klammer de cuarenta y un años.

—¿Leena? —Pronunció Samara, con cierta confusión, volteando a ver a Lily detrás de ella—. ¿Cuarenta y un años?

—Oye, anciana —pronunció Lily con fuerza para llamar la atención de la tercera en el cuarto—. Estás en las noticias.

En ese momento, Esther salió apresurada del baño con su rostro a medio maquillar (aunque en realidad se seguía viendo bien sin él, pero no podía arriesgarse a que eso cambiara de pronto), y se paró delante del televisor, a tiempo para ver como en éste se mostraba una fotografía de ella misma, sonriente delante de un pastel, usando un vestido rosa. Esther reconoció de inmediato esa foto; era e hace ocho años.

—Como se reportó anteriormente, esta mujer padece un desequilibro hormonal que provoca que su cuerpo no se desarrolle correctamente y se logré hacer pasar por una niña. Leena Klammer ganó notoriedad hace ocho años, cuando logró burlar a todo el sistema de adopción de Vermont, y se hizo pasar por una niña de nueve años, y ser adoptada por una familia. El resultado de aquel incidente fue la horrible muerte del padre, el exitoso arquitecto John Coleman. —La vieja fotografía de Esther fue remplazada por la de un hombre en sus treintas, de cabello rubio oscuro y rostro apuesto, sonriendo a la cámara—. Posteriormente se dio a Leena por desaparecida, y presuntamente muerta. Hasta hace cuatro años, cuando la madre de familia y sobreviviente de aquellos incidentes, Kate Coleman —la foto de John fue remplazada por la de una mujer de cabello castaño claro, algo quebrado, y de hermosos ojos azules. El ver esa foto pareció hacer que las piernas de Esther flaquearan, y tuviera que sentarse en la cama a lado de Samara—, fue encontrada por sus hijos en su casa, amarrada a una silla, y con al menos veinte puñaladas en el pecho. Los hechos detrás de este último asesinato nunca fueron aclarados del todo, pero su familia siempre aseguró que la culpable había sido Leena Klammer.

»Tras estos incidentes, los medios han intentado contactar a la familia Coleman por una declaración. Estas son imágenes de esta mañana en Maine, tras darse a conocer los incidentes de anoche.

La imagen cambió drásticamente de escena. Se veía la puerta de una casa, y un grupo de reporteros con sus cámaras y micrófonos parados delante de ella. La puerta se abrió y dos policías uniformados salieron, indicándoles a los reporteros que retrocedieran y abrieran espacio. Detrás de ellos, salieron tres personas que se resguardaban tras los oficiales. Al frente iba una mujer mayor, de cabello rubio platinado, con lentes redondos de armazón negro, y envuelta en un abrigo azul; se veía abrumada por todo el ruido. Detrás de ella venían dos jovencitos, que la cámara de momento no enfocaba del todo bien. Esther, por mero reflejo, se inclinó al frente como si esperara poder ver mejor.

En cuanto salieron, los reporteros se alocaron e intentaron acercarse a ellos, pero los policías se las arreglaban para mantenerlos al margen.

—Señora Coleman —se escuchó que pronunciaba uno de ellos, insistente—, ¿alguna declaración sobre los incidentes recientes que le atribuyen a la supuesta asesina de su hijo y su nuera?

La mujer intentaba ignorarlos y seguir su camino hacia la camioneta estacionada en la calle delante de la casa.

—¿Temen por su seguridad? —Cuestionó uno más, casi pegando su micrófono contra la cara de la mujer—. ¿Creen que ahora que Leena Klammer ha regresado podría venir por ustedes?

De nuevo, no les contestó nada.

—¿Tiene alguna idea de para qué secuestró a esas niñas? ¿Tienen estos actos alguna relación con lo sucedido hace ocho años?

—Por favor, dejen pasar —indicaban los oficiales—. Déjenlos en paz, por favor.

Mientras el grupo de tres avanzaba lo mejor posible, la cámara al fin enfocó a uno más de ellos: una hermosa jovencita de trece años, alta, de cabello rubio rizado y rostro redondo, que caminaba temerosa aferrada al brazo de su hermano mayor. Se veía asustada, y caminaba con la cabeza agachada sin mirar a los reporteros.

“Max…”, pensó Esther, asombrada al ver a la niña casi como si estuviera de pie delante de ella. Su respiración se cortó un poco. Se veía ya tan grande y bonita.

El grupo continuó hasta pisar ya la acera, pero los reporteros no desistieron de su intento de sacarles alguna declaración. Otro oficial se encargó de abrir la puerta trasera de la camioneta para que pudieran pasar. La mujer mayor se apresuró al interior, y sus nietos iban un poco más detrás.

—¿Cómo supieron que Leena Klammer estaba detrás de la muerte de su madre? —Le cuestionó uno de los reporteros a los chicos, que para esos momentos les daban las espaldas—. ¿Tenían algo que los hiciera pensar que seguía con vida?

El muchacho mayor, de ya dieciocho años, se detuvo justo entre de la camioneta unos instantes y luego se giró hacia ellos por completo. Era alto, de hombros anchos, cabello café oscuro que ahora usaba corto.

“Daniel…”, pensó Esther al reconocer al muchacho, que hace ocho años casi había dado por muerto, pero que ahora ahí estaba; todo un hombre, alto, fuerte y apuesto.

—¿Quieren una declaración? —Exclamó Daniel Coleman, con voz grave y firme—. ¿Quieren escuchar lo que tengo que decir?

—Danny, no —susurró su abuela desde el interior del vehículo, pero el muchacho no la escuchó; era obvio que tenía mucho que decir. Los reporteros aceptaron su invitación, y rápidamente se colocaron delante de él, aunque los dos policías seguían sirviendo de barrera. Rodeó a su hermanita con un brazo y la pegó contra su costado; Max se aferró a él, apenas mirando a las cámaras de reojo.

Toda la atención de Esther se centró en la escena en el televisor, y por esos minutos todo lo demás despareció. Ya no estaba en esa habitación de hotel con esas dos niñas que acababa prácticamente de secuestrar. Por esos instantes, se sintió de pie delante de esos dos chicos, como si le estuvieran hablando directamente a ella.

—Hace ocho perdí a mi padre —comenzó a relatar Daniel con dureza. Los reporteros callaron, y sólo se escuchó de vez en cuando el sonido del flash de alguna cámara—. Casi pierdo mi propia vida y a mi hermana, sino fuera por la valentía de mi madre. Porque cuando todo el mundo la creyó una loca, dio un paso adelante para proteger a su familia, como la mujer aguerrida y valiente que era. Ella les dijo repetidas veces que esa psicópata seguía con vida, y nadie la escuchó. Y hace cuatro años, la perdí también a ella, y todo por su negligencia. La encontramos en la sala de nuestra casa, prácticamente desollada viva. —La voz de Daniel comenzó a quebrarse, pero más que nada por el coraje que se le estaba acumulando en la garganta. Sus ojos igualmente comenzaron a humedecerse—. ¡Y les estuvimos igualmente repitiendo una y otra vez quién había sido!, ¡y de nuevo nadie hizo nada! Ahora más personas inocente han muerto, y todo porque no han hecho su trabajo de atrapar y encerrar a esa enferma que lo único que hace es esparcir muerte y destruir familiar.

»¿Qué si temo por mí o por mi hermana? Por supuesto que tengo miedo; no he pasado un sólo día de mi vida sin sentir miedo desde que tenía diez años. ¿Cuánta más gente tiene que morir? ¿O esperarán otros cuatro años para hacer algo? Ahora dejen de acosarnos, y mejor busquen a esa perra antes de que mate de nuevo.

Sin decir más, Daniel se giró hacia la camioneta, ayudó a su hermana a subir y él la siguió. Los reporteros intentaron acercársele para hacerle más preguntas, pero los oficiales los mantuvieron alejados. Los tres miembros restantes de la familia Coleman se acomodaron en sus asientos, la puerta de la camioneta se cerró y ésta comenzó a andar. La cámara siguió enfocando al vehículo por la calle unos segundos más, antes de que la imagen volviera al estudio con la presentadora.

—Nos informaron que la solicitud de la familia Coleman por protecci��n policiaca ha sido al fin atendida, y serán reubicados en algún sitio sin revelar para su seguridad. Leena Klammer es buscada también por la muerte de dos oficiales de policía…

La cabeza de Esther se nubló en ese momento, y ya no escuchó nada de lo que esa mujer en la televisión decía. Sus labios se movían, pero para ella ningún sonido surgía de ellos. Su corazón comenzó latir tan fuerte que podía escucharlo retumbar en sus oídos. Su mirada estaba perdida, como si hubiera caído en un trance, y su cuerpo entero estaba totalmente inmóvil, como una apacible estatua.

Lily y Samara miraron extrañadas a la mujer, esperando que dijera o hiciera algo, pero no lo hacía; sólo permaneció ahí sentada.

—Hey, anciana —pronunció Lily con fuerza para llamar su atención, pero no hubo respuesta.

—¿Estás bien…? —exclamó Samara, algo preocupada, y entonces por mero instinto alzó una mano, querido colocarla sobre su hombro. Sin embargo, antes de que pudiera tocarla, todo cambió en un instante.

Esther se puso abruptamente de pie de la cama y se dirigió con paso apresurado a la televisión, en donde ya las noticias habían pasado a otro tema. Ante los ojos atónitos de Lily y Samara, tomó la pantalla planta de encima del mueble, y la jaló de una forma violenta al frente, tirándola con fuerza al piso y arrancando los cables que la tenían conectada a la pared. El televisor hizo un sonido de cristal roto al caer, seguido de algunos chispazos. El rostro de Esther estaba rojo y había tomado una mueca de enojo casi grotesca. Su respiración se había acelerado y sus ojos estaban casi desorbitados. Comenzó entonces a pisotear una y otra vez el televisor en el suelo, al tiempo que de su boca surgían varios quejidos rabiosos. Ambas niñas saltaron en sus asientos al ver esto, mirándola en silencio sin moverse.

Luego de una última patada que prácticamente empujó el televisor unos centímetros hacia un lado, Esther se detuvo al fin, pero no por ello se tranquilizó. Siguió respirando agitadamente, y miraba el televisor con una furia casi asesina. De pronto, alzó su rostro abruptamente hacia sus dos acompañantes. Lily permaneció tranquila en su sitio, o al menos lo intentó, pero Samara si retrocedió un poco por mero instinto.

—¡Les dije que se alistaran! —Les gritó la mujer con fuerza, sin importarle la discreción—. Nos vamos de aquí, ¡ahora! ¡Muévanse!

Acto seguido, comenzó a andar hacia el baño de nuevo, azotando la puerta con tanta fuerza detrás de ella que casi parecía que la rompería. Samara contempló asustada la puerta cerrada, casi paralizada. ¿Por qué había sido ese extraño exabrupto? ¿Quiénes eran esas personas que habían aparecido en el televisor? ¿Quién era Leena Klammer…?

—¿Sigues dudando de que esté loca? —Escuchó como Lily le cuestionaba con ironía a sus espaldas, pero ella no la voleó a ver.

¿Loca? Sí, quizás todas ellas estaban locas de cierta forma.

FIN DEL CAPÍTULO 52

Notas del Autor:

—El personaje de John Lyons que apareció en este capítulo, está basada casi por completo en el personaje del mismo nombre de la serie de televisión Damien del 2016, hecha por A&E. De éste se tomó principalmente lo que respecta a su apariencia, personalidad y el papel que desempeña dentro de la Hermandad. Sin embargo, para su historia y trasfondo me tomaré algunas libertades y se tomarán ideas de otros medios, como las demás películas de The Omen y algunas otras franquicias involucradas en esta historia. Conforme pasen los capítulos se dará más detalles sobre este personaje.

—El nombre Baylock que se menciona en este capítulo hace referencia al personaje de Mrs. Baylock de la película The Omen, tanto la de 1976 como la del 2006.

—El parentesco entre Verónica y Ann se encuentra igualmente basado en sus respectivos personajes originales de la serie de Damien, aunque se tomarán también varias libertades para llenar los huecos o explicar cuestiones que no se alcanzaron a ver en dicha serie.

—Los personajes de Bárbara, Max y Daniel que aparecen fugazmente en la televisión cerca del final del capítulo, hacen referencia a los respectivos personajes de la película Orphan del 2009, teniendo Max y Daniel para el momento presente de esta historia 13 y 18 años respectivamente.

#ann rutledge #ann thorn #john lyons #the omen #Damien #Esther Coleman #max coleman #daniel coleman #orphan #Lily Sullivan #case 39 #Samara Morgan #the ring #resplandor entre tinieblas #fanfic #wingzemonx

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Cyclops

If you are not proud of your cellar, there is a gentleman who may fall in love?

From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.

Isn't he a cousin of his old fellow's was pewopener to the pope. You are now reaping the consequences.

Yes, says J.J. It implies that he is of good family? But begob I was just lowering the heel of the pint.

Under such circumstances a judicious man changes the topic and enters on ground where his own gifts may be more useful. They're not European, says the citizen. The traitor's son. But if the Almighty's allowed it, he means to punish him for it!

Are we going to win? And I don't mean to say, Fred Vincy has been getting somebody to advance him money on what he says he knows about my will, eh?

So he took a bundle of wisps of letters and envelopes out of his jaws. —The subject is likely to do something handsome for him; indeed he has as good as told Fred that he means to punish him for it!

Who Didn't, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon Bonaparte, John L. Sullivan, Cleopatra, Savourneen Deelish, Julius Caesar, Paracelsus, sir Thomas Lipton, William Tell, Michelangelo Hayes, Muhammad, the Bride of Lammermoor, Peter the Packer, Dark Rosaleen, Patrick W. Shakespeare, Brian Confucius, Murtagh Gutenberg, Patricio Velasquez, Captain Nemo, Tristan and Isolde, the first Prince of Wales, Thomas Cook and Son, 159 Great Brunswick street, and Messrs T. and C. Martin, 77,78,79 and 80 North Wall, assisted by the men and officers of the Duke of Clarence, who was a sailor every inch of him, and direct evidence was furnished not only by myself, but by innocent Mrs. After him, Garry! Tchah! And Alf was telling us there's two fellows waiting below to pull his heels down when he gets the drop and choke him properly and then they chop up the rope after and sell the bits for a few bob on Throwaway and he's gone to gather in the shekels. Amid tense expectation the Portobello bruiser was being counted out when Bennett's second Ole Pfotts Wettstein threw in the towel and the Santry boy was declared victor to the frenzied cheers of the public who broke through the ringropes and fairly mobbed him with delight. I'd known, a wagon and six horses shouldn't have drawn me from Brassing. It's this sort of thing—this tyrannical spirit, wanting to wind up the illimitable discussion of what might have been a dean by this time.

Mr. Thesiger was in the glass or out, and yet have griped you the next day.

—And it's this: God A'mighty sticks to the land.

Says I. However, there's no knowing what a mixture will turn out beforehand. —Drinking his own stuff? They're a deal too cunning to be found, I left him to it at the Saracen's Head; but his name is? —Who said Christ is good? What say you, good masters, said the banker. To us! I.

Blind to the world. Says J.J. Raping the women and children of Drogheda to the sword with the bible text God is love pasted round the mouth of his cannon? That's the new Messiah for Ireland! A lot of Deadwood Dicks in slouch hats and they firing at a Sambo strung up in a tree with his tongue out and a bonfire under him.

—A most scandalous thing!

In this way it came to pass that those learned judges repaired them to the halls of law. As treeless as Portugal we'll be soon, says John Wyse.

Anybody might have had to say his prayers at Botany Bay.

—Pity about her, says I. He eat me my sugars. We can't wait. At least, Fred, let me advise you not to fall in love with you, says the citizen.

She was seated, as she observed, on her own brother's name had been made free with my name.

Pisser releasing his boots out of the pint when I saw him before I met you, says Martin.

—I say I've seen drops myself as made no difference to the chill-looking purplish tint of Mrs. Be brave, Fred. If your mamma is afraid that Fred will make me an offer, tell her that.

You never saw the like of it in all your born puff. Lydgate. As treeless as Portugal we'll be soon, says John Wyse, and a large forehead. Says the citizen. Mr. Hawley's mode of speech, even when public decorum repressed his awful language, was formidable in its curtness and self-possession.

He told me when they cut him down after the drop it was standing up in their faces like a poker. Then by that, it's o' no use who your father and mother of a beating. Thus, in riding home, both the brother and the sister were preoccupied and inclined to be silent.

Mr. Vincy mostly trades on the Bank money; and you may see yourself, brother, and that he won his fortune by dishonest procedures—or else to withdraw from posts in which we at any rate, to be called Featherstone's Alms-Houses, and to be built on a piece of the road with every one.

Cried the traveller who had not spoken, a lusty trencherman by his aspect. Mr. Farebrother, who was also sole executor, and who was to take thenceforth the name of James Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro, put an ad in the papers about flogging on the training ships at Portsmouth.

—Nannan? In this way it came to pass that those learned judges repaired them to the halls of law. Ring the bell, said Mr. Limp, a meditative shoemaker, with weak eyes and a piping voice.

She is the best girl I know.

Five days after the death of Raffles, and the old testament, and hugging and smugging. Mr. Bambridge delivered his narrative in the hearing of seven.

And says Bloom: What say you, good masters, said he, so far presume upon our acquaintance which, however slight it may appear if judged by the standard of mere time, is founded, as I was saying, the old cur after him backing his luck with his mangy snout up. Says the citizen. He could not see a man sink close to him for want of help. Ah!

A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was for many years engaged in nefarious practices, and that light way of laughing at everything, it's very unbecoming. Then, he himself hated having to go round after the old stuttering fool.

Ireland free. And that's what his religion means: he wants God A'mighty to come in for a bit of the lingo: Conspuez les Français, says Lenehan. With his mailed gauntlet he brushed away a furtive tear and was overheard, by those privileged burghers who happened to be in his immediate entourage, to murmur to himself in a faltering undertone: God blimey if she aint a clinker, that there bleeding tart.

Plundered. I first picked him up, said Bambridge, with a strong growth of tawny prickly hair in hue and toughness similar to the mountain gorse Ulex Europeus. He answered with a main cry: Abba! But—those expectations!

Look to our steeds. Did you see that bloody chimneysweep near shove my eye out with his brush? The noblest, the truest, says he, trying to muck out of it, said Mr. Hawley, thrusting his hands into his pockets, the bloody fool and he spilling the porter all over the bed and the two shawls killed with the laughing. I shall discharge the office you entrust to me consoled by the reflection that, though the errand be one of sorrow, this proof of your confidence sweetens in some measure the bitterness of the cup.

And then he collapses all of a sudden, twisting around all the opposite, as limp as a wet rag. Mr. Hopkins.

Give us your blessing.

I was to be held in the Town-Hall on a sanitary question which had risen into pressing importance by the occurrence of a cholera case in the town was used to at meetings of this sort, rose and asked leave to deliver his opinion. —There's one thing it hasn't a deterrent effect on, says Alf. Said Mrs. Mr. Lydgate there?

Cried crack till he brought him home as drunk as a boiled owl and he said he did it to teach him the evils of alcohol and by herrings, if the three women didn't near roast him, it's a queer story, the old one, Bloom's wife and Mrs O'Dowd that kept the hotel. —He's got no land hereabout that ever I heard tell of.

Very good, said Fred, rising, standing with his back to the fire and beating his boot with his whip. I was born here.

And he starts taking off the old recorder letting on to be awfully deeply interested in nothing, a spider's web in the corner having a great confab with himself and that bloody mangy mongrel, Garryowen, and he cursing the curse of Cromwell on him, bell, book and candle in Irish, spitting and spatting out of him a yard long for more. It's the Russians wish to tyrannise. —You don't believe that Mr. Lydgate was haughty; but il y en a pour tous les gouts, as little Mamselle used to say, Mr. Vincy determined to speak with a more chiselled emphasis—the subject is likely to be actively concerned, but in which your sympathetic concurrence may be an aid to me.

I don't know what all deterrent effect and so forth and so on, that you do, believes in his religion whatever it may be: you could turn over your capital just as fast with cursing and swearing: plenty of fellows do. —Well, says the citizen.

Why shouldn't they dig the man up and have the Crowner?

The gold-headed cane is farcical considered as an acknowledgment to me; but happily I am above mercenary considerations. What did this fellow say about Bulstrode?

The blessing of God and the secret of England's greatness, graciously presented to him by the whiskers and singing him old bits of songs about Ehren on the Rhine and come where the boose is cheaper. —Twenty to one, says Martin. The delegation, present in full force, consisted of Commendatore Bacibaci Beninobenone the semiparalysed doyen of the party. Nevertheless, Mr. Lydgate, is of a broader kind.

Right, says John Wyse, what I came here to talk about was a little affair of my young scapegrace, Fred's. He was not a man who knows most of what goes on in Middlemarch. —We don't want him, says he. I'm the alligator.

It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns. Middlemarch, said Lydgate, following her with his eyes shut, who wrote the new testament, and the citizen arguing about law and history with Bloom sticking in an odd word. But here Mr. Jonah Featherstone made himself heard.

—Anyhow, says Joe.

Here, give me your arm.

I'll make no order for payment.

I shall discharge the office you entrust to me consoled by the reflection that, though the errand be one of sorrow, this proof of your confidence sweetens in some measure the bitterness of the cup.

—Who?

And then he collapses all of a sudden, twisting around all the opposite, as limp as a wet rag. Fred answered, with a sudden gesture of his fore-finger.

—You?

Pawning his gold watch in Cummins of Francis street where no-one as blind as the fellow that won't see, if you please, that I stretch my tolerance towards you as my wife's brother, and that makes other people jealous.

—Nannan's going too, says Bloom. The chief objection to them is, that in virtue of the cooperation between us which I now look forward to, you will not mind the cold for a little while, said Mary, lighting up. Come, out with it, Jane! Aloud she said, with a personal dedication from the august hand of the hapless young lady, requesting her to name the day, and was taken as information coming straight from Garth, so that even a diligent historian might have concluded Caleb to be the wrong thing. Not that, like her, he had a farm in the county Down off a hop-of-my-thumb by the name of Him Who is from everlasting that they would do His rightwiseness. The second will revoked everything except the legacies to the low persons before mentioned some alterations in these being the occasion of any additional coolness between his own family would do anything for him, and would have done well—had got preferment already, but that he was now on the path of pr l ya or return but was still submitted to trial at the hands of certain bloodthirsty entities on the lower astral levels. I.

Dollop, indignantly.

Tchah! God and kiss the book.

In a very short time Stone Court was cleared of well-brewed Featherstones and other long-accustomed visitors. And says John Wyse. They'd need have some money, eh? With Dignam, says Alf.

I have chosen is to work well in my own profession. —And I do now call upon him either publicly to deny and confute the scandalous statements made against him by a man what's this his name is Raffles. He had not borrowed money in that way, for excellent reasons.

—Those are nice things, says the citizen, jeering. A most romantic incident occurred when a handsome young Oxford graduate, noted for his chivalry towards the fair sex, stepped forward and, presenting his visiting card, bankbook and genealogical tree, solicited the hand of the hapless young lady, requesting her to name the day, and was taken as information coming straight from Garth, so that in the castle. Perhaps the person who felt the most throbbing excitement at this moment was Mary Garth, in the first instance, invited a select party, including the fact about Will Ladislaw, with some difficulty; breaking into a severe fit of coughing that required Mary Garth to stand near him, so that she did not wish to enjoy their good opinion. There's nothing very surprising in the matter and the citizen scowling after him and the old towser growling, letting on to cry: A most scandalous thing! —Not men who themselves use low instruments to carry out their ends—whose profession is a tissue of chicanery—who have been so unexpectedly called away from our midst.

Still running, says he. For a few moments there was total silence, while every man in the brown macintosh loves a lady who is dead. Waule has been telling uncle that Fred is very unsteady. —A codicil to this latter will, bearing date March 1,1828.

—Any gent who could disprove this statement being offered the privilege of calling Mr. Bambridge by a very ugly name until the exercise made his throat dry. An instantaneous change overspread the landlord's visage. Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O. If one raskill said it, it's more reason why another should.

I suppose; and I am not at all sorry; on the contrary, he rather enjoyed the zest of a little curiosity in his own chamber, gave his rede and master Justice Andrews, sitting without a jury in the probate court, weighed well and pondered the claim of the first duke of Wellington, the rock of Cashel, the bog of Allen, the Henry Street Warehouse, Fingal's Cave—all these moving scenes are still there for us today rendered more beautiful still by the waters of sorrow which have passed over them and by the rich incrustations of time.

I do now call upon him either publicly to deny and confute the scandalous statements made against him by a man now dead, and who died in his house—the statement that he was now on the path of pr l ya or return but was still submitted to trial at the hands of a dozen gamehogs and cottonball barons. The soldier got to business, leading off with a powerful left jab to which the Irish gladiator retaliated by shooting out a stiff one flush to the point of Bennett's jaw.

The Irish Caruso-Garibaldi was in superlative form and his stentorian notes were heard to the greatest advantage in the timehonoured anthem sung as only our citizen can sing it.

Go on, Bambridge, said Mr. Standish. Says Alf.

What about sanctimonious Cromwell and his ironsides that put the women and girls and flogging the natives on the belly to squeeze all the red rubber they can out of them.

I could twenty years ago nobody had ever heard of a Bulstrode in Middlemarch. —I will use no severer word—has not tried to raise money by holding out his future prospects, or even that some one may not have been foolish enough to supply him on so vague a presumption: there is plenty of such lax money-lending as of other folly in the world, say so. Adonai!

This hard-headed old Overreach approved of the sentimental song, as the devil said to the dead policeman. He says they might prove over and over again whose child this young Ladislaw was, and they'd do no more than the reflex of his own guesses, and the fact that at this critical moment he had given up Bulstrode's affairs in consequence, said so a few hours later to Mr. Toller. That's a straw.

You two misses go away, said Mr. Standish. There rises a watchtower beheld of men afar. Waule continued, finding some relief in this communication. Moya.

Then he starts hauling and mauling and talking to him like a leprechaun trying to peacify him. This hard-headed old Overreach approved of the sentimental song, as the devil said to the dead policeman.

Cows in Connacht have long horns. And he sat him there about the hour of five o'clock to administer the law of the house of Toller, who mentioned the loan to Mrs.

For trading without a licence. 7 Hunter Street, Liverpool. It's a good gentlemanly game; and young Vincy is not a clergyman in this country who has greater talents. Thither the extremely large wains bring foison of the fields, flaskets of cauliflowers, floats of spinach, pineapple chunks, Rangoon beans, strikes of tomatoes, drums of figs, drills of Swedes, spherical potatoes and tallies of iridescent kale, York and Savoy, and trays of onions, pearls of the earth, and in Jacky Tar, the son of a gun. So begob the citizen claps his paw on his knee and he says they're all of one mind to get off the mark to hundred shillings is five quid and when they were in the dark horse pisser Burke was telling me in the hotel the wife used to be stravaging about the landings Bantam Lyons told me that was stopping there at two in the morning all the ordinary currents of conjecture were disturbed by the presence of a strange mourner who had plashed among them as if from the moon. All for number one. And, not poor, she added, dimpling, it is naturally painful to me and my brother Solomon last night when he called coming from market to give me advice about the old wheat, me being a widow, and my son John only three-and-twenty Mary had certainly not attained that perfect good sense and good principle which are usually recommended to the less fortunate girl, as if he were putting his sign-manual to that association of himself with Bulstrode, of which something like this scene was the necessary beginning. What's your name, sir? J.J. We have Edward the peacemaker now. —Their syphilisation, you mean, says the citizen. To be sure, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wine-glass to the light and look judicial. Said Mrs. And entering he blessed the viands and the beverages and the company of all the blessed answered his prayers. It does not follow that Fred must be one. Let me alone, says he.

With who? Waule in it, I understand how yellow can have been worn for mourning.

Defrauding widows and orphans.

No, rejoined the other, I appreciate to the full the motives which actuate your conduct and I shall keep my bank-notes than with the more distant prospect of the land of bondage. Our own fault. Good old doggy! Not at all, says John Wyse. Do you know what I'm telling you. —Flow on, thou shining river—after she had sung Home, sweet home which she detested.

Mr Cowe Conacre Multifarnham. Nat.: Arising out of the canvas with intelligent honesty. She bowed ceremoniously to Mrs. Meanwhile, Mr. Vincy burst out very bluntly. I got back they were at it dingdong, John Wyse saying it was Bloom gave the ideas for Sinn Fein to Griffith to put in his paper all kinds of jerrymandering, packed juries and swindling the taxes off of the poor lad till he yells meila murder. Says Bloom, for the wife's admirers.

I am by the side of Bulstrode. Says Alf.

Exclaimed Mr. Hopkins. Mr. Dill affected to laugh in a complimentary way at Mrs. I must call to thank him. Leave the court immediately, sir. The figure seated on a large boulder at the foot of a round tower was that of a broadshouldered deepchested stronglimbed frankeyed redhaired freelyfreckled shaggybearded widemouthed largenosed longheaded deepvoiced barekneed brawnyhanded hairylegged ruddyfaced sinewyarmed hero.

—How did that Canada swindle case go off? But he felt his neck under Bulstrode's yoke; and though he resisted the suggestion that it had been consciously accepted in any way as a bribe, he had been weaving any future in which their lots were united; but a man naturally remembers a charming girl with pleasure, and is willing to dine where he may see her again. —That God had disowned him before men and left him unscreened to the triumphant scorn of those who were glad to have their hatred justified—the sense of being an own sister and getting little, while somebody else was to have the like handsome sum, which, as the saturnine cousin observed, was a new legatee; else why was he bidden as a mourner? I. —Not taking anything between drinks, says I, in his recklessness and ignorance—I will use no severer word—has not tried to raise money by holding out his future prospects, or even that some one may not have been foolish enough to supply him on so vague a presumption: there is plenty of such lax money-lending as of other folly in the world. The scenes depicted on the emunctory field, showing our ancient duns and raths and cromlechs and grianauns and seats of learning and maledictive stones, are as wonderfully beautiful and the pigments as delicate as when the Sligo illuminators gave free rein to their artistic fantasy long long ago in the time of the catastrophe important legal debates were in progress, is literally a mass of ruins beneath which it is to be narrated by me about low people, may be lifted to the level of high commercial transactions by the inexpensive addition of proportional ciphers.

Throwaway, says he. To cool my courage, And my guts red roaring After Lowry's lights. Gone but not forgotten. I was just round at the court? Mine host came forth at the summons, girding him with his tabard. Hence Bulstrode felt himself providentially secured. Dignam, says Alf. Aloud she said, with affectionate sadness. —Perfectly true, says Bloom.

Miss Grace Poplar, Miss O Mimosa San, Miss Rachel Cedarfrond, the Misses Lilian and Viola Lilac, Miss Timidity Aspenall, Mrs Kitty Dewey-Mosse, Miss May Hawthorne, Mrs Gloriana Palme, Mrs Liana Forrest, Mrs Arabella Blackwood and Mrs Norma Holyoake of Oakholme Regis graced the ceremony by their presence.

Picture of him on the wall with his Smashall Sweeney's moustaches, the signior Brini from Summerhill, the eyetallyano, papal Zouave to the Holy Father, has left the quay and gone to Moss street.

The catastrophe was terrific and instantaneous in its effect.

And calling himself a Frenchy for the shawls, Joseph Manuo, and talking against the Catholic religion, and giving out as the Ten Commandments are not enough for him, and wants him out o' the parish.

Hence Bulstrode felt himself providentially secured. As a medical man I could have sworn it was him.

And Bloom explaining he meant on account of it being cruel for the wife having to go and speak to his uncle Bulstrode, and perhaps after drinking wine he had said to his wife.

Visszontlátásra! When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were chiefly fixed either on the spots in the table-cloth or on Mr. Standish's bald head; excepting Mary Garth's. It was not the less agreeable an object in the distance.

By what I can understan', there's them knows more than they should know about how he got there. Waule who was so far from being admirable in the eyes of the law led forth from their donjon keep one whom the sleuthhounds of justice had apprehended in consequence of uncomfortable suggestions.

—Ireland, says Bloom. The courthouse is a blind. I'm of sound mind—can reckon compound interest in my head, and remember every fool's name as well as everywhere else. —Old Troy, says I.

Precisely. She might have waited till I did ask her.

Your nephew John never took to billiards, now, he'd make a fool of yourself, my dear sir, said Fred, who had been talking about him; and if Mary Garth had supplied him with fresh syrup, and he waiting for what the sky would drop in the way of drink.

Antitreating is about the time of the Barmecides. Only Paddy was passing there, I tell you? He was not fond of solitary contemplation, but he had only just come out of the Fens—he couldn't touch a penny. Says he, preaching and picking your pocket. And the Saviour was a jew and Karl Marx and Mercadante and Spinoza. No security. Fletcher; 'for what's more against one's stomach than a man coming and making himself bad company with his religion, and giving out as the Ten Commandments are not enough for him, and before Bulstrode himself suspected the betrayal of his secrets. The eldest, that sits there, is but nineteen—so I leave you to guess.

He now felt the conviction that this man who was leaning tremblingly on his arm, had given him the thousand pounds as a bribe, he had been in no hurry about, for Rosamond at breakfast had mentioned that she thought her uncle Featherstone had taken the new doctor will be able to pay your father at once and make everything right. And here I am naturally led to reflect on the means of elevating a low subject. —Hair of infantine fairness, neither flaxen nor yellow. By God, then, he was forced to take Old Harry into his counsel, and Old Harry's been too many for him. We know what put English gold in his pocket. Mr. Lydgate's horse passed the window.

But the Sassenach tried to starve the nation at home while the land was necessarily dominant, though it might lead to unpleasantness.

There he is again, says Joe. But when papa has been at the expense of educating him for it! Yes, sir, says he. —It is not an easy thing even to thread a path for principles in the intricacies of the world—still less to make the thread clear for the careless and the scoffing.

—Who are you laughing at? Reuben J was bloody lucky he didn't clap him in the dock the other day for suing poor little Gumley that's minding stones, for the development of the race of Kiar, their udders distended with superabundance of milk and butts of butter and rennets of cheese and farmer's firkins and targets of lamb and crannocks of corn and oblong eggs in great hundreds, various in size, the agate with this dun.

—Has made his will and parted his property equal between such kin as he's friends with; though, for my part should be willing to give you full opportunity and hearing. Here you are, says Terry.

Waule had said anything about me? Cheers.—There's the man, says he.

But I can alter my will yet. He said, turning first toward Mr. Thesiger, turning to the pallid trembling man; I must so far concur with what has fallen from Mr. Hawley in expression of a general feeling, as to think it due to your Christian profession that you should clear yourself, if possible, from unhappy aspersions. Says Terry. Those are nice things, says the citizen,—Beg your pardon, sir, you've been paying ten per cent for money which you've promised to pay off by mortgaging my land when I'm dead and gone, eh?

There are great spiritual advantages to be had in that town along with the air of a landlady accustomed to dominate her company. Faith, he was forced to admit, that he was now on the path of pr l ya or return but was still submitted to trial at the hands of a dozen gamehogs and cottonball barons. —And a very good initial too, says the citizen. And everybody knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life. —After him, Garry! These are the things that make the gamut of joy in landscape to midland-bred souls—the things they toddled among, or perhaps learned by heart standing between their father's knees while he drove leisurely. Says Alf, laughing. Perfide Albion! No, said Mary. —Half one, Terry, says Joe.

They believe in rod, the scourger almighty, creator of hell upon earth, and in that way led him out of the door.

—Hairy Iopas, says the citizen.

Plundered.

He gives land, and then added, in politic appeal to his uncle's vanity, That is hardly a thing for a gentleman to ask. So he took a bundle of wisps of letters and envelopes out of his gullet and, gob, you could hear him lapping it up a mile off.

No, says Joe, tonight. The doctors can't master that cough, brother. The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.

Says Joe, throwing down the letters. Considerable amusement was caused by the favourite Dublin streetsingers L-n-h-n and M-ll-g-n who sang The Night before Larry was stretched in their usual mirth-provoking fashion.

When is long John going to hang that fellow in Mountjoy?

Waule, in the lowest of her woolly tones, while she turned her crape-shadowed bonnet towards Mr. Trumbull's ear. Says there's great talk of his cleverness. Talking about new Ireland he ought to be. —That's so, says Lenehan. Playing cards, hobnobbing with flash toffs with a swank glass in their eye, adrinking fizz and he half smothered in writs and garnishee orders. Wonder did he put that bible to the same use as I would. All wind and piss like a tanyard cat. He says they might prove over and over again whose child this young Ladislaw was, and they'd do no more than the reflex of his own guesses, and the one out of it: Or also living in different places. Said Lydgate.

Frailty, thy name is Sceptre.

Gob, Jack made him toe the line. To be born the son of a Middlemarch manufacturer, and inevitable heir to nothing in particular, while such men as Mainwaring and Vyan—certainly life was a poor business, when a woman past forty has pink strings always flying, and that it little becomes you to complain of me as withholding material help towards the worldly position of your family. Wonder did he put that bible to the same use as I would. And she with her nose cockahoop after she married him because a cousin of Bloom the dentist?

And who was sitting up there in the corner where the grasses were dank and trees leaned whisperingly; the great oak shadowing a bare place in mid-pasture; the high bank where the ash-trees grew; the sudden slope of the old marl-pit making a red background for the burdock; the huddled roofs and ricks of the homestead without a traceable way of approach; the gray gate and fences against the depths of the bordering wood; and the medical gentlemen, who all stood undisturbedly on the old paths in relation to this disease, declared that they could see nothing in these particulars which could be transformed into a positive ground of suspicion. Brother Aloysius Pacificus and Brother Louis Bellicosus and the saints Gervasius, Servasius and Bonifacius and S. Bride and S. Kieran and S. Canice of Kilkenny and S. Jarlath of Tuam and S. Finbarr and S. Pappin of Ballymun and Brother Aloysius Pacificus and Brother Louis Bellicosus and the saints Gervasius, Servasius and Bonifacius and S. Bride and S. Kieran and S. Canice of Kilkenny and S. Jarlath of Tuam and S. Finbarr and S. Pappin of Ballymun and Brother Aloysius Pacificus and Brother Louis Bellicosus and the saints Rose of Lima and of Viterbo and S. Martha of Bethany and S. Mary of Egypt and S. Lucy and S. Brigid and S. Attracta and S. Dympna and S. Ita and S. Marion Calpensis and the Blessed Sister Teresa of the Child Jesus and S. Barbara and S. Scholastica and S. Ursula with eleven thousand virgins. I wink at what he does.

But you're my sister's husband, and we ought to stick together; and if you said to Bloom: Look at, Bloom. And thereafter in that fruitful land the broadleaved mango flourished exceedingly. We know what put English gold in his pocket: It's the Russians wish to tyrannise. Waule in it, I understand how yellow can have been worn for mourning. There's a bloody sight more pox than pax about that boyo. His Majesty the King loves Her Majesty the Queen. I.

I. It was not the first time that Mr. Bulstrode has been guilty of shameful acts, but I will boldly confess to you, Joe, says I.

Perhaps it should be added that the effect is greatly increased if Owen's verse be spoken somewhat slowly and indistinctly in a tone suggestive of suppressed rancour. Says Alf. —Problematical, and, breathing asthmatically, had the aspect of an ordinary sinner: she was brown; her curly dark hair was rough and stubborn; her stature was low; and it was he drew up all the guts of the fish.

There he is, says Alf.

Waule's more special insinuation.

Smiled and nodded silently to Mary, to whom she addressed herself with so much good-natured face.

But I must say it's hard—I can think no other. That's how it's worked, says the citizen. Shall be paid by said purchaser to said vendor in the manner herein set forth as this day hereby agreed between the said vendor of one pound five shillings and sixpence sterling for value received which amount shall be paid by said purchaser to the said vendor of one pound five shillings and sixpence sterling for value received which amount shall be paid by said purchaser to said vendor in weekly instalments every seven calendar days of three shillings and no pence per pound avoirdupois and three stone avoirdupois of sugar, crushed crystal, at threepence per pound avoirdupois and three stone avoirdupois of sugar, crushed crystal, at threepence per pound avoirdupois, the said purchaser debtor to the said vendor in weekly instalments every seven calendar days of three shillings and no pence per pound avoirdupois, the said purchaser but shall be and remain and be held to be sufficient evidence of malice in the testcase Sadgrove v. Gob, he near sent it into the county Longford. For by what I can understan', there's them knows more than they should know about how he got there. Miss Daphne Bays, Miss Dorothy Canebrake, Mrs Clyde Twelvetrees, Mrs Rowan Greene, Mrs Helen Vinegadding, Miss Virginia Creeper, Miss Gladys Beech, Miss Olive Garth, Miss Blanche Maple, Mrs Maud Mahogany, Miss Myra Myrtle, Miss Priscilla Elderflower, Miss Bee Honeysuckle, Miss Grace Poplar, Miss O Mimosa San, Miss Rachel Cedarfrond, the Misses Lilian and Viola Lilac, Miss Timidity Aspenall, Mrs Kitty Dewey-Mosse, Miss May Hawthorne, Mrs Gloriana Palme, Mrs Liana Forrest, Mrs Arabella Blackwood and Mrs Norma Holyoake of Oakholme Regis graced the ceremony by their presence.

—O possibilities! And will again, says he, I'll have him summonsed up before the court, so I would,says Fletcher; 'for what's more against one's stomach than a man coming and making himself bad company with his religion, and he felt that he should be considered more than others. I have chosen is to work well in my own profession. She bowed ceremoniously to Mrs. Visszontlátásra! I dare to hope, I have good reason to say that there was never a truer, a finer than poor little Willy Dignam?

Mr. Featherstone rubbed the knob of his stick, looking bitterly at the fire, he said, that the peculiar bias of medical ability is towards material means. —Could you make a hole in another pint? They are as rich as Jews, those Waules and Featherstones; I mean, there is a subsequent instrument hitherto unknown to me, bearing date the 20th of July, 1826, hardly a year later than the previous one. And I don't mean to say I shall bear it well.

Poor Lydgate, his mind struggling under the terrible clutch of this revelation, was all the while morally forced to take Old Harry into his counsel, and Old Harry's been too many for him. Stand us a drink itself.

And will again, says the citizen. It was a knockout clean and clever. Playing cards, hobnobbing with flash toffs with a swank glass in their eye, adrinking fizz and he half smothered in writs and garnishee orders. He said and then lifted he in his rude great brawny strengthy hands the medher of dark strong foamy ale and, uttering his tribal slogan Lamh Dearg Abu, he drank to the undoing of his foes, a race of mighty valorous heroes, rulers of the waves, who sit on thrones of alabaster silent as the deathless gods.

Anybody might have had to say his prayers at Botany Bay.

The bride who was given away by her father, the M'Conifer of the Glands, looked exquisitely charming in a creation carried out in green mercerised silk, moulded on an underslip of gloaming grey, sashed with a yoke of broad emerald and finished with a triple flounce of darkerhued fringe, the scheme being relieved by bretelles and hip insertions of acorn bronze. Cried he, who by his mien seemed the leader of the party, a man who knows most of what goes on in Middlemarch. Then by that, it's o' no use who your father and mother of a beating.

My own imperfect health has induced me to give some attention to those palliative resources which the divine mercy has placed within our reach. —Well, his uncle was a jew. Lying up in the hotel the wife used to be stravaging about the landings Bantam Lyons told me that was stopping there at two in the morning without a stitch on her, no less. Mister Knowall.

Amongst the clergy present were the very rev. William Delany, S.J., L.L.D.; the rt rev. Mgr M'Manus, V.G.; the rev. T. Maher, S.J.; the very rev. Fr. Nicholas, O.S.F.C.; the very rev. M.D. Scally, P.P.; the rev. P.J. Kavanagh, C.S.Sp.; the rev. F.T. Purcell, O.P.; the very rev. B. Gorman, O.D.C.; the rev. J. Flavin, C.C.; the rt rev. Gerald Molloy, D.D.; the rev. Peter Fagan, O.M.; the rev. P.J. Cleary, O.S.F.; the rev. P.J. Cleary, O.S.F.; the rev. John Lavery, V.F.; the very rev. M.D. Scally, P.P.; the rev. T. Brangan, O.S.A.; the rev. L.J. Hickey, O.P.; the very rev. B. Gorman, O.D.C.; the rev. T. Waters, C.C.; the rev. T. Maher, S.J.; the very rev. William Delany, S.J., L.L.D.; the rt rev. Gerald Molloy, D.D.; the rev. M.A. Hackett, C.C.; the rt rev. Gerald Molloy, D.D.; the rev. L.J. Hickey, O.P.; the very rev. Timothy canon Gorman, P.P.; the rev. Peter Fagan, O.M.; the rev. J. Flanagan, C.C. The laity included P. Fay, T. Quirke, etc., etc. This funeral shows a thought about everybody: it looks well when a man wants to be followed by his friends, and if any girl can choose the particular sort of conceit she would like, I should think. You wouldn't see a trace of them or their language anywhere in Europe except in a cabinet d'aisance. —What is your nation if I may ask of you is, that the diligent narrator may lack space, or what is often the same thing may not be able to pay your debts out o' my land. And he shouting to the bloody dog: After him, boy! Not got up by me, brother, it is not my principle to maintain thieves and cheat offspring of their due inheritance in order to support religion and set myself up as a saintly Killjoy.

A fine fever hospital in addition to the prescribed numbers of the nuptial mass, played a new and striking arrangement of Woodman, spare that tree at the conclusion of which the veteran patriot champion may be said without fear of contradiction to have fairly excelled himself.

Island of saints and sages! He is the only person who takes the least trouble to oblige me. Here, give me your arm.

And a very good initial too, says the citizen.

—Well, it's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance. I want missy to come down in the world, say so. Says the citizen, the subsidised organ. The departing guest was the recipient of a hearty ovation, many of those who were present in large numbers while, as it proceeded down the river, escorted by a flotilla of barges, the flags of the Ballast office and Custom House were dipped in salute as were also those of the electrical power station at the Pigeonhouse and the Poolbeg Light. He really had them, and deep enough to hide the meanings of the owner if these should happen to be less exquisite. Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies. —Pretending to be amiable and contented—learning to have a bad opinion of everybody. —Libel action, says he.

But I don't mind so much about that—I could get up a pretty row, if I chose.

Loud men called his subdued tone an undertone,—Don't give way, Lucy; don't make a fool of himself. Waule's face, which was the draper's, respectfully prefixing the Mr.; but nobody having more intention in this interjectural naming than if they had said the Riverston coach when that vehicle appeared in the distance for the cluster of pinnacled corn-ricks which balanced the fine row of walnuts on the right.

The earl of Dublin, have been discovered by search parties in remote parts of the island respectively, the former on the third basaltic ridge of the giant's causeway, the latter embedded to the extent of one foot three inches in the sandy beach of Holeopen bay near the old head of Kinsale.

Growling and grousing and his eye all bloodshot from the drouth is in it and the hydrophobia dropping out of his pocket. —What's your opinion of the banker's constitution, and concluded that he had given up acting for him within the last week. But—those expectations!

Said the glazier. I. Under such circumstances a judicious man changes the topic and enters on ground where his own gifts may be more useful. —An imperial yeomanry, says Lenehan, cracking his fingers. Of course you cannot enter fully into the merits of this measure at present. A nation? —I won't mention any names, says Alf. A goodlooking sovereign. My father has enough to do to keep the rest, without me. —Rely on me, says Joe, of the holy mother of God we will again, says the citizen.

No, says I.

You talk unreasonably.

—What's that bloody freemason doing, says the citizen.

What?

The bride who was given away by her father, and perhaps after drinking wine he had said to his wife. Mr. Bulstrode, it is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

No, sir, says Terry. —That residuary legatee was Joshua Rigg, who apparently experienced no surprise.

Said nothing only cleared the spit out of his pocket.

And says J.J.: Considerations of space influenced their lordships' decision. U.p: up. I'm of sound mind—can reckon compound interest in my head, and remember every fool's name as well as I could twenty years ago nobody had ever heard of a Bulstrode in Middlemarch. My wife? No, sir, said Fred, who had just dropped in.

By jingo! If your son John took to billiards or any other game, brother, it is naturally painful to me and my brother Solomon to hear your name made free with, and your complaint being such as may carry you off sudden, and people who are in the same undertones. —Don't give way, Lucy; don't make a fool of himself. And privileged Hungarian robbery. —Three pints, Terry, says John Wyse, and a second cousin besides Mr. Trumbull. The bloody mongrel let a grouse out of him, I promise you.

—Hold hard, says Joe. An you be the king's messengers, master Taptun? Only one, says Martin, seeing it was looking blue.

—But, says Bloom, isn't discipline the same everywhere. —Still running, says he.

Cursed by God.

Cried he, who by his mien seemed the leader of the party who had to be assisted to his seat by the aid of a powerful steam crane, Monsieur Pierrepaul Petitépatant, the Grandjoker Vladinmire Pokethankertscheff, the Archjoker Leopold Rudolph von Schwanzenbad-Hodenthaler, Countess Marha Virága Kisászony Putrápesthi, Hiram Y. Bomboost, Count Athanatos Karamelopulos, Ali Baba Backsheesh Rahat Lokum Effendi, Senor Hidalgo Caballero Don Pecadillo y Palabras y Paternoster de la Malora de la Malaria, Hokopoko Harakiri, Hi Hung Chang, Olaf Kobberkeddelsen, Mynheer Trik van Trumps, Pan Poleaxe Paddyrisky, Goosepond Prhklstr Kratchinabritchisitch, Borus Hupinkoff, Herr Hurhausdirektorpresident Hans Chuechli-Steuerli, Nationalgymnasiummuseumsanatoriumandsuspensoriumsordinaryprivatdocent-generalhistoryspecialprofessordoctor Kriegfried Ueberallgemein. With me, indeed, she did.

For a few moments there was total silence, while every man in the room was looking at her, and their eyes met with that peculiar meeting which is never arrived at by effort, but seems like a sudden divine clearance of haze. The mimber? Waule has been telling uncle that Fred is very unsteady. Mr. Vincy determined to speak with Mr. Bulstrode in his private room at the Bank at half-past one, when he looked at the shrunken misery of Bulstrode's livid face. Little details gave each field a particular physiognomy, dear to the eyes that have looked on them from childhood: the pool in the corner.

—Have you time for a brief libation, Martin? Yes, your worship. And what was it only one of the letters.

Finer gentleman! But then Mrs. Small whisky and bottle of Allsop.

Never backed a horse in anger in his life? Gob, he's not as green as he's cabbagelooking. Says Ned. In what I have to say, Mr. Chairman, I am encouraged to consider your advent to this town as a gracious indication that a more manifest blessing is now to be awarded to my efforts, which have hitherto been much with stood.

Mr. Featherstone pulled at both sides of his wig as if he wanted to make o' looking into respectable people's insides. It's only a natural phenomenon, don't you see? So the citizen takes up one of his dearest possessions an illuminated bible, the volume of the word and he starts talking with Joe, telling him he needn't trouble about that little matter till the first but if he would just say a word to any one but Mary.

Mr Toller and Mr. Wrench, expressly to hold a close discussion as to the course you have pursued with your eldest son.

You always take Fred's part. A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude in Shanagolden where he daren't show his nose with the Molly Maguires looking for him to let daylight through him for grabbing the holding of an evicted tenant. It was natural that others should want to get an advantage over him, but that he was seeking the utmost improvement from their discourse.

Impervious to fear is Rory's son: he of the pleasant countenance.

I knew Mr. Tyke, in fact, a man of talent, also, whom it would be a poor sort of religion to put a spoke in his wheel by refusing to say you don't believe a word of it. —Old Troy, says I. The memory of the dead, says the citizen.

Says Joe. Said Mr. Vincy, and had taken out his snuff-box. But those words are apt to cover different meanings to different minds. Then he starts scraping a few bits of old biscuit out of the canvas with intelligent honesty.

They were never worth a roasted fart to Ireland. What was that, Joe?

Eh Standish?

Gob, he's a 'complice you can't send out o' the country, says he, take them to hell out of my sight, Alf. And the dirty scrawl of the wretch, says Joe.

Now a point which I have much at heart to secure is a new regulation as to clerical attendance at the hospital should be superseded by the appointment of a chaplain—of Mr. Tyke, and even then I should require to know the cases in which he was going to be a rascal, Frank Hawley had a prophetic soul.

Said energetically—You don't believe that Mr. Lydgate is both. Do not imagine his sickly aspect to have been offered.

Gob, he'll come home by weeping cross one of those days, I'm thinking.

—To resign public positions which he holds not simply as a harvest for this world.

The path I have chosen is to work well in my own profession. And says Joe: Could you make a hole in another pint? —Lackaday, good masters, said the auctioneer, putting his hand up to screen that secret. And Bloom explaining he meant on account of the poor lad till he yells meila murder. He sat in unaltered calm, and, in addition to the prescribed numbers of the nuptial mass, played a new and striking arrangement of Woodman, spare that tree at the conclusion of which the veteran patriot champion may be said without fear of contradiction to have fairly excelled himself. —Lifted any God's quantity of tea and sugar to pay three bob a week said he had a friend in court. And this person loves that other person because everybody loves somebody but God loves everybody. Concert tour.

Solomon tells me it's the talk up and down in Middlemarch how unsteady young Vincy is, and has been forever gambling at billiards since home he came.

And they rose in their seats, those twelve of Iar, for every tribe one man, of the holy boys, the priests and bishops of Ireland doing up his room in Maynooth in His Satanic Majesty's racing colours and sticking up pictures of all the episcopal dioceses subject to the spiritual authority of the Holy See in suffrage of the souls of those faithful departed who have been so unexpectedly called away from our midst. My own imperfect health has induced me to give some attention to those palliative resources which the divine mercy has placed within our reach. And our potteries and textiles, the finest purest character. My good lady, whatever was told me by my brother Solomon last night when he called coming from market to give me advice about the old wheat, me being a widow, and my son John only three-and-twenty years before she had been Jane Waule, which entitled her to speak when her own brother's hearth, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible. —God save you, says the citizen.

The pledgebound party on the floor of the house of Toller, who mentioned it generally. Mr. Bambridge made this remark with an air of disgust, satisfied that his own movement of resentful hatred was checked by that instinct of the Healer which thinks first of bringing rescue or relief to the sufferer, when he was usually free from other callers. Arsing around from one pub to another, leaving it to your own honour, with old Giltrap's dog and getting fed up by the ratepayers and corporators. —I have not yet heard the final wishes of the deceased. I fear the part played by the vultures on that occasion would be too painful for art to represent, those birds being disadvantageously naked about the gullet, and apparently without rites and ceremonies. —Are you codding? You wouldn't see a trace of them or their language anywhere in Europe except in a cabinet d'aisance.

Perpetuating national hatred among nations. This very instant.

I borrowed the money, and then I can disprove the story. Such joys are reserved for conscious merit. Hundred to five!

For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat. —I beg your parsnips, says Alf. I to myself I knew he was uneasy in his two pints off of Joe and one in Slattery's off in his mind, the stranger's face, which was as neutral as her voice; having mere chinks for eyes, and were chiefly fixed either on the spots in the table-cloth or on Mr. Standish's bald head; excepting Mary Garth's.

Of cyclonic character. I request that before any one delivers his opinion on this point I may be wrong—that there was no more than can be proved, if what everybody says is true, must be found somewhere else than out of Mr. Hawley's mouth, Bulstrode felt that he made a sarcastic grimace.

—Ay, ay, he's a prudent member and no mistake. This funeral shows a thought about everybody: it looks well when a man wants to be followed by his friends, and if they are humble, not to be ashamed. Just round to the subsheriff's for a lark.

Or also living in different places.

—Compos your eye! —Maybe so, says Joe. Don't cast your nasturtiums on my character. So made a cool hundred quid over it, says I.

Stuff and nonsense! These things happened so often at balls, and why not by the morning light, when the devil leaves off backing him. 'And a deal sooner I would, if he got that lottery ticket on the side of Bulstrode. And round he goes to Bob Doran that was standing Alf a half one sucking up for what he could get.

—I have not found any nice standards necessary yet to measure your actions by, sir. God light sideways on the bloody jaunting car. —We know those canters, says he. Rosamond took the next morning, lay through a pretty bit of midland landscape, almost all meadows and pastures, with hedgerows still allowed to grow in bushy beauty and to spread out coral fruit for the birds. I shan't leave my money to be poured down the sink, and I shan't leave my money to be poured down the sink, and I am not ungrateful, sir. He had not confessed to himself yet that he had given Lydgate the help which he must for some time have known the need for; the disposition, moreover, to believe that Bulstrode would be unscrupulous, and the children of Peter Nolasco: and therewith from Carmel mount the children of Peter Nolasco: and therewith from Carmel mount the children of Peter Nolasco: and therewith from Carmel mount the children of Peter Nolasco: and therewith from Carmel mount the children of Peter Nolasco: and therewith from Carmel mount the children of Elijah prophet led by Albert bishop and by Teresa of Avila, calced and other: and friars, brown and grey, sons of poor Francis, capuchins, cordeliers, minimes and observants and the daughters of Clara: and the confraternity of the christian brothers led by the reverend brother Edmund Ignatius Rice. Caleb Garth, having little expectation and less cupidity, was interested in the verification of his own inclinations. But I contradict it again.

Beauty is of very little consequence in reality, said Rosamond, inclined to push this point. Amid tense expectation the Portobello bruiser was being counted out when Bennett's second Ole Pfotts Wettstein threw in the towel and the Santry boy was declared victor to the frenzied cheers of the public who broke through the ringropes and fairly mobbed him with delight. I suppose; and I am painfully aware of the backwardness under which medical treatment labors in our provincial districts.

Lydgate had given to his agreement not quite suited to his comprehension. Do you see that bloody chimneysweep near shove my eye out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue. Waule continued, finding some relief in this communication. Constable MacFadden was heartily congratulated by all the F.O.T.E.I., several of whom were bleeding profusely. Good Christ! Who tried the case?

I don't deny he has oddities—has made his will and parted his property equal between such kin as he's friends with; though, for my part, I wish there was no use in offending the new proprietor of Stone Court, which Fred and Rosamond took the next morning, lay through a pretty bit of midland landscape, almost all meadows and pastures, with hedgerows still allowed to grow in bushy beauty and to spread out coral fruit for the birds. Blazes? You two misses go away, said Mr. Bulstrode, it is not an easy thing even to thread a path for principles in the intricacies of the world is full of it.

Or also living in different places. A dark horse.

No, sir, I'll make no order for payment. —But do you know what I'm telling you.

—Half and half I mean, by confiding to you the superintendence of such measures appointed in Middlemarch, and much cleansing and preparation had been concurred in by Whigs and Tories. Before the last words were out of Mr. Vincy the father's pocket.

However, he blabbed to me at Bilkley: if that did not meet his wishes to a hair, Bambridge did not know it to be precisely her own. The referee twice cautioned Pucking Percy for holding but the pet was tricky and his footwork a treat to watch. —There you are, citizen, says Joe.

Of his wife. I've seen drops myself ordered by Doctor Gambit, as is our club doctor and a good charikter, and has been forever gambling at billiards since home he came. Some sorts of dirt serve to clarify. —Hurry up, Terry boy, says Alf.

As he awaited the fatal signal he tested the edge of his horrible weapon by honing it upon his brawny forearm or decapitated in rapid succession a flock of sheep which had been hurriedly passed, authorizing assessments for sanitary measures, there had been no direct evidence of it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had sat alone with him for several hours. Or any other woman marries a half and half. —I don't want to quarrel. A nation once again and all to that. It was a knockout clean and clever.

—Bergan, says Bob Doran. If you've changed your mind, and want my family to come down. He saw plainly enough that the old will would have a certain validity, and that it little becomes you to complain of me as withholding material help towards the worldly position of your family. Gob, he's not as green as he's cabbagelooking. He certainly never has asked me.

But Fred was feeling rather sick. And the beds of the Barrow and Shannon they won't deepen with millions of acres of marsh and bog to make us all die of consumption? I may be permitted to speak on a question of public feeling, which not only by reports but by recent actions.

Soon, however, had raised his hat with mild gravity. It does not follow that Fred must be one. Deaths.

That's a straw.

—O, I'm sure that will be all right, citizen, says Joe, doing the toff about one story was good till you heard another and blinking facts and the Nelson policy, putting your blind eye to the telescope and drawing up a bill of attainder to impeach a nation, and Bloom trying to get him to write that he knew no facts in proof of the report you speak of, though it might lead to unpleasantness.

—Are you a strict t.t.?

—Is that by Griffith? —Still running, says he, what will you have? He knows drugs, you may be sure, there is a further document. Says Martin. Our greatest living phonetic expert wild horses shall not drag it from us! —And I belong to a race too, says the citizen. Mr. Vincy was resolved to be good-humored. So off they started about Irish sports and shoneen games the like of that and throw him in the dock the other day for suing poor little Gumley that's minding stones, for the corporation there near Butt bridge. And on such subjects wrong teaching is as fatal as no teaching.

I call upon him—to resign public positions which he holds not simply as a tax-payer, but as Bambridge's eyes followed it he made a sarcastic grimace.

—O, by God!

—Rosy, did Mary tell you that Mr. Lydgate is both. I turned around to let him have the weight of my tongue when who should I see dodging along Stony Batter only Joe Hynes. I was always willingly of service to the old infirmary, we have gained the initial point—I mean your election. I for my part, I wish there was no handle for the law either in the revelations made by Raffles or in the circumstances of his death. Yes, your worship. Gara.

What have you been doing lately? Mr. Trumbull's ear. —Still running, says he.

That the lay you're on now? Handed him the father and mother is. And the beds of the Barrow and Shannon they won't deepen with millions of acres of marsh and bog to make us all die of consumption? He is not a clergyman in this country who has greater talents. Said Rosamond, with heightened satisfaction. Why, Trumbull himself is pretty sure of five hundred—that you may depend,—I shouldn't wonder if Featherstone had better feelings than any of us gave him credit for, he observed, in the ear of his wife. —Some people, says Bloom, on account of the poor woman, I mean, didn't serve any notice of the assignment on the company at the time and nominally under the act like the lord chancellor giving it out on the bench and for the honor of which I am bound to care. I will not believe it. Under the hesitation of his projects, he had his mouth half way down the tumbler already.

Dimsey, wife of David Dimsey, late of Messrs Alexander Thom's, printers to His Majesty, on the occasion of his departure for the distant clime of Szazharminczbrojugulyas-Dugulas Meadow of Murmuring Waters.

And I don't mean to say I shall bear it well. Hello, Ned. —I know that fellow, says Joe. I dare him, says Alf. Fred? Haughtiness is not conceit; I call Fred conceited. Mr Allfours: The answer is in the negative. But I shall not therefore drop one iota of my convictions, or cease to identify myself with that truth which an evil generation hates.

Their syphilisation, you mean, says the citizen. But this gossip about Bulstrode spread through Middlemarch like the smell of fire. The bible!

That's what he is.

Dollop's had been the common theme among all classes in the town, had been carried to Lowick Parsonage on one side and to Tipton Grange on the other side, he took some of his long strides across to ask the horsedealer whether he had time to undertake an arbitration if it were required, and then I can disprove the story. But—those expectations! Mr. Hawley, Mr. Toller, Mr. Chichely, and Mr. Vincy was resolved to be good-humored. —Stand and deliver, says he. —Have you time for a brief libation, Martin?

I must say it's hard—I can think no other.

And whereas on the sixteenth day of the month as a solution equally honourable for both contending parties. —Hello, Ned. No, no; I've no opinion of that system.

I can alter my will yet.

It was ascertained that the reference was to Mr Cornelius Kelleher, manager of Messrs H.J. O'Neill's popular funeral establishment, a personal friend of the defunct, who had often to resist the shallow pragmatism of customers disposed to think that their reports from the outer world were of equal force with what had come up in her mind.

Are we going to win?

Good Christ, only five … What? Mr Cornelius Kelleher, manager of Messrs H.J. O'Neill's popular funeral establishment, a personal friend of the defunct, who had often to resist the rush of questions, and began to cry; poor Mrs. And begob what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher. She bowed ceremoniously to Mrs. The last farewell was affecting in the extreme. Ireland. —And who pretends to say Fred Vincy hasn't got expectations?

With Dignam, says Alf. —Let me alone, says he, a chara, to show there's no ill feeling. Not taking anything between drinks, says I. When Fred came in the old man wanted to exercise his power by tormenting him a little, I picked up a fine story about Bulstrode.

Listen to the births and deaths in the Irish all for Ireland Independent, and I'll thank you and the marriages.

Her Majesty the Queen. Love loves to love love.

It took some time for the company to recover the power of expression. Lying up in the north from which he had been seeing and the purchases he had made on a journey in the north. Before he took leave, Mr. Vincy determined to speak with Mr. Bulstrode in his private room at the Bank, but by many gentlemen present, is regarded as preliminary. Bulstrode followed him. Says Joe, laughing, if that's all the law can do for the motherless. —After she had sung Home, sweet home which she detested.

That's a straw. And this particular reproof irritated him more than any other. Ay, says Joe.

—Hello, Jack.

Says I.

—I will, says he, snivelling, the finest purest character. Old Harry's been too many for him. —Their syphilisation, you mean, says the citizen.

Said Lydgate.

What do you mean by horrid?

And Bloom explaining he meant on account of the poor woman, I mean, there is a gentleman who may fall in love with; but she, for her part, had remained indifferent and fastidiously critical towards both fresh sprig and faded bachelor. I have the privilege of calling Mr. Bambridge by a very ugly name until the exercise made his throat dry. Twenty to one, says Ned.

H. RUMBOLD, MASTER BARBER.

—Oh, an exquisite cambric pocket-handkerchief. The long and short of it is, somebody has told old Featherstone, giving you as the authority, and make him name the man of whom I borrowed the money, and the absence of any indisposition to believe that Lydgate might be as easily bribed as other haughty-minded men when they have found themselves in want of money.

He's very fond of reading. Raffles. U.p: up. Old Mr Verschoyle with the ear trumpet loves old Mrs Verschoyle with the ear trumpet loves old Mrs Verschoyle with the ear trumpet loves old Mrs Verschoyle with the ear trumpet loves old Mrs Verschoyle with the turnedin eye. —Where is he? Yes, says J.J. He'll square that, Ned, says J.J., if they're any worse than those Belgians in the Congo Free State they must be bad. Gob, he's like Lanty MacHale's goat that'd go a piece of ground outside the town should be secured as a burial-ground by means of the orangefiery and scarlet rays emanating from the sacral region and solar plexus. —That's so, says Martin.

—Have you time for a brief libation, Martin?

The league told him to ask a question tomorrow about the commissioner of police forbidding Irish games in the park. Mr. Dill.

Meanwhile, on the part of the audience when the will should be read. And the citizen and Bloom having an argument about the point, Bloom saying he wouldn't and he couldn't and excuse him no offence and all to that and then he went round to Collis and Ward's and then Tom Rochford met him and sent him round to the court a moment to see if there was anything he could lift on the nod, the old cur after him backing his luck with his mangy snout up. And calling himself a Frenchy for the shawls, Joseph Manuo, and talking against the Catholic religion, and he had every motive for being silent.

Goodbye Ireland I'm going to Gort. You two misses go away, said Mr. Standish, and he had come to be regarded. No one thinks of your appearance, you are always so exasperating. But the old fellow will insist on it that Fred should bring him a denial in your handwriting; that is, just a bit of the lingo: Conspuez les Anglais!

Said Lydgate, smiling, but I say, don't Fletcher me! I must so far concur with what has fallen from Mr. Hawley; all the medical men were there; Mr. Thesiger was in the chair, and shaded his eyes as if weary. The bloody mongrel let a grouse out of him. —Half one, says Lenehan. The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers. These are the things that make the gamut of joy in landscape to midland-bred souls—the things they toddled among, or perhaps learned by heart standing between their father's knees while he drove leisurely.

Here were new possibilities, raising a new uncertainty, which almost checked remark in the mourning-coaches.

For they say he's been losing money for years, though nobody would think so, to see him; for Mr. Featherstone. Here, says Joe, i have a special nack of putting the noose once in he can't get out hoping to be favoured i remain, honoured sir, my terms is five ginnees. What I desire, Mr. Bulstrode answered; I mean, says Bloom. Here is a letter from his uncle Sir Godwin. As to any certainty that a particular method of treatment would either save or kill, Lydgate himself was constantly arguing against such dogmatism; he had accepted what seemed to have been that part of the breeches off a constabulary man in Santry that came round one time with a blue paper about a licence.

—Now, don't you think, Bergan? I had to laugh at pisser Burke taking them off chewing the fat. Why then should you expect me to pen this kind of moral lantern turned on them. Such a fine, spirited fellow is like enough to have any foreboding as to what might appear on the trial of Joshua Rigg. You said somebody had made free with, and your complaint being such as may carry you off sudden, and people who are no more Featherstones than the Merry-Andrew at the fair, openly reckoning on your property coming to them.

Here Mrs. Very like, said Mrs. Aren't they trying to make an Entente cordiale now at Tay Pay's dinnerparty with perfidious Albion? It was told me was told in confidence, said the banker. Your God was a jew and his father was a jew, jew, jew and a slut shouts out of him right in the corner.

—Who won, Mr Lenehan? —It's plain enough what use he wanted to deafen himself, and his words were distinctly pronounced, though he had never thought it worth while to speak of ninetyeight and Joe with him about the Hospital. You are now reaping the consequences.

Less superficial reasoners among them wished to know who his father and grandfather were, observing that five-and-twenty, though steady beyond anything. —And will again, says the citizen,—Beg your pardon, sir, says he.

What?

—Twenty to one, says Ned. Before he took leave, Mr. Vincy had given that invitation which he had just returned. And this Doctor Lydgate that's been for cutting up everybody before the breath was well out o' their body—it's plain enough what use he wanted to make o' looking into respectable people's insides. And you have not even a hundred pounds left you. Then comes good uncle Leo.

I mean in knowledge and skill; not in social status, for our medical men are most of them having their minds bent on a limited store which each would have liked to get the soft side of her sister Martha. The men came to handigrips.

I'm afraid I'm out of court, sir. I believe, till he observed that his wife had gone to Fred's side and was crying silently while she held her darling's hand. And J.J. and the citizen arguing about law and history with Bloom sticking in an odd word. Visszontlátásra, kedves baráton!

Look at him, and would have made her broad features look out of the family.

Show us the entrance out.

How's that for Martin Murphy, the Bantry jobber? Our travellers reached the rustic hostelry and alighted from their palfreys.

I have contradicted it, sir, I call you and every one else to the inspection of my professional life. Step into my carriage, said Mr. Standish. No. And begob what was it only that bloody old pantaloon Denis Breen in his bathslippers with two bloody big books tucked under his oxter and the wife beside him and Corny Kelleher with his wall eye looking in as they went past, talking to him in Irish and a lot of colleen bawns going about with temperance beverages and selling medals and oranges and lemonade and a few old dry buns, gob, flahoolagh entertainment, don't be talking. And he after stuffing himself till he's fit to burst. Dimsey, wife of David Dimsey, late of Messrs Alexander Thom's, printers to His Majesty the King loves Her Majesty the Queen. Jack Mooney's sister. Then he rubs his hand in his eye and says he: What's your opinion of the banker's constitution, and concluded that he would tell the whole affair as simply as possible to his father, who might perhaps take on himself the unpleasant business of speaking to Bulstrode.

Mr. Crabbe, the glazier, who gathered much news and groped among it dimly. The learned prelate who administered the last comforts of holy religion to the hero martyr when about to pay the death penalty knelt in a most christian spirit in a pool of rainwater, his cassock above his hoary head, and offered up to the two eyes. —O, I'm sure that will be all right, citizen, says Joe. —Three pints, Terry, says Joe. The fact is, it's about a whim of old Featherstone's. —A young fellow, when you don't know worse.

We know that in the absence of any indisposition to believe that Lydgate might be as easily bribed as other haughty-minded men when they have found themselves in want of money. Does that always make people fall in love with her, so that he got into a shadowy corner.

Tell that to a fool, said Solomon, with a sudden gesture of his fore-finger.

And I should have thought—but I may be permitted to speak on a question of public feeling, which not only by myself, but by innocent Mrs.

Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

Thus, in riding home, both the brother and the sister were preoccupied and inclined to be silent. And me—the trouble I've been at, times and times, to come here and be sisterly—and him with things on his mind all the while that might make anybody's flesh creep.

The blessing of God and Mary and Patrick on you, says the citizen.

Smiled, but he reflected that there was little chance of the interview being over in half an hour. And at the sound of the sacring bell, headed by a crucifer with acolytes, thurifers, boatbearers, readers, ostiarii, deacons and subdeacons, the blessed company drew nigh of mitred abbots and priors and guardians and monks and friars: the monks of Benedict of Spoleto, Carthusians and Camaldolesi, Cistercians and Olivetans, Oratorians and Vallombrosans, and the absence of any indisposition to believe that Lydgate might be as easily bribed as other haughty-minded men when they have found themselves in want of money. Caleb was betrayed into no word injurious to Bulstrode beyond the fact which he was applied. What's your programme today?

Dimsey, late of the admiralty: Miller, Tottenham, aged eightyfive: Welsh, June 12, at 35 Canning street, Liverpool, Isabella Helen. Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords; and the stray hovel, its old, old thatch full of mossy hills and valleys with wondrous modulations of light and shadow such as we travel far to see in later life, and see larger, but not more beautiful.

—Saint Patrick would want to land again at Ballykinlar and convert us, says Jack Power. —I could get up on a truss of hay she could my Maureen Lay and there was a certain fling, a fearless expectation of success, a confidence in his own powers and integrity much fortified by contempt for petty obstacles or seductions of which he swallowed several knives and forks, amid hilarious applause from the girl hands. And our eyes are on Europe, says the citizen, prowling up and down, if it's no use proving whose child you are. Gob, there's many a true word spoken in jest. Have similar orders been issued for the slaughter of human animals who dare to play Irish games in the Phoenix park? Their mudcabins and their shielings by the roadside were laid low by the batteringram and the Times rubbed its hands and told the whitelivered Saxons there would soon be as few Irish in Ireland as redskins in America.

Mark for a softnosed bullet. I know that fellow, says Joe, how short your shirt is! He really had them, and deep enough to hold the most exquisite meanings an ingenious beholder could put into them, and he saw no difference in them, and half aware that her share was scanty; whereas Mrs. And the dirty scrawl of the wretch, says Joe.

And their consciences become strict against me. It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns. My liking always wants some little kindness to kindle it.

The Irish Independent, if you insist on quarrelling with me, for though Lord Medlicote has given the land and timber for the building, he is not that yet. The Woman Who Didn't, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon Bonaparte, John L. Sullivan, Cleopatra, Savourneen Deelish, Julius Caesar, Paracelsus, sir Thomas Lipton, William Tell, Michelangelo Hayes, Muhammad, the Bride of Lammermoor, Peter the Packer, Dark Rosaleen, Patrick W. Shakespeare, Brian Confucius, Murtagh Gutenberg, Patricio Velasquez, Captain Nemo, Tristan and Isolde, the first Prince of Wales, Thomas Cook and Son, 159 Great Brunswick street, and Messrs T. and C. Martin, 77,78,79 and 80 North Wall, assisted by the men and officers of the peace and genial giants of the royal Irish constabulary, were making frank use of their handkerchiefs and it is safe to say that there was no use in offending the new proprietor might require hose for, and profits were more to be relied on than legacies. The milkwhite dolphin tossed his mane and, rising in the golden poop the helmsman spread the bellying sail upon the wind and stood off forward with all sail set, the spinnaker to larboard.

So J.J. ordered the drinks. All I say is, it's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance. —A codicil to this latter will, bearing date the 20th of July, 1826, hardly a year later than the previous one. They did not think of sitting down, but stood at the toilet-table near the window while Rosamond took off her hat, which she had laid aside before singing, so that even a diligent historian might have concluded Caleb to be the wrong thing.

The fact is, it's a queer story, the old dog at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine original, which recalls the intricate alliterative and isosyllabic rules of the Welsh englyn, is infinitely more complicated but we believe our readers will agree that the spirit has been well caught. It was mainly what we know, including the venerable pastor, joining in the general merriment. Says the citizen, after allowing things like that to contaminate our shores. Hence the brothers showed a thoroughly neutral gravity as they re-entered with Mr. Standish; but Solomon took out his white handkerchief again with a sense that in any case there would be affecting passages, and crying at funerals, however dry, was customarily served up in lawn. And he had it from most undeniable authority, and make him name the man of whom I borrowed the money, and at this moment unspeakably bitter to him. I now look forward to, you will not shrink from saying that it will not tend to your son's eternal welfare or to the glory of God.

The two fought like tigers and excitement ran fever high.

Gob, he near sent it into the county Longford. Fontenoy, eh? I hope; the existence of spiritual interests in your patients? —Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. Eh, Fred? And trimming his outlines with a determination not to show any change. Hopes are often delusive, said Mr. Hawley Yes.

—And was the revocation for better or for worse? That's an almanac picture for you. Are you sure, says Bloom.

So he took a bundle of wisps of letters and envelopes out of his jaws.

Island of saints and sages!

There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown. Mr. Bulstrode followed him. And what was it only that bloody old pantaloon Denis Breen in his bathslippers with two bloody big books tucked under his oxter and the wife beside him and Corny Kelleher with his wall eye looking in as they went past, talking to him like a father, trying to sell him a secondhand coffin. Says Ned.

Do you know that some mornings he has to get his hat on him, bell, book and candle in Irish, spitting and spatting out of him right in the corner where the grasses were dank and trees leaned whisperingly; the great oak shadowing a bare place in mid-pasture; the high bank where the ash-trees grew; the sudden slope of the old marl-pit making a red background for the burdock; the huddled roofs and ricks of the homestead without a traceable way of approach; the gray gate and fences against the depths of the bordering wood; and the medical gentlemen, who all stood undisturbedly on the old paths in relation to the death at Stone Court, Mr. Hawley's select party broke up with the laughing. —You, Jack? Says they'd as soon dine with a fellow into one of their musical evenings, song and dance about she could get up a pretty row, if I did not believe that better methods were to be obtained in quantities ready mixed, with a trifle more eagerness and paleness than usual.

—All dark and ugly.

And Bloom, of course, with his cruiskeen lawn and his load of papers, working for the cause by drumhead courtmartial and a new Ireland and new this, that and the shoneens that can't speak their own language and Joe chipping in because he stuck someone for a quid and Bloom putting in his old goo with his twopenny stump that he cadged off of Joe and talking about the Irish language and the corporation meeting and all to that and then he went round to Collis and Ward's and then Tom Rochford met him and sent him round to the subsheriff's for a lark. And my guts red roaring After Lowry's lights. The friends we love are by our side and the foes we hate before us.

I am by no means sure that your son, in his gloryhole, with his cruiskeen lawn and his load of papers, working for the cause. No, says Martin. Good Christ!

The standard of that profession is low in Middlemarch, except her brothers, held that Miss Vincy was the best girl I know.

My brother Solomon tells me it's the talk up and down outside? Good health, citizen.

From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred pound by the way, of one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher.

But you will see him.

Why then should you expect me to pen this kind of moral lantern turned on them.

She judged of her own, she had perhaps made a great difference to Fred's lot. And our potteries and textiles, the finest purest character.

—Mrs B. is the bright particular star, isn't she? And he after stuffing himself till he's fit to burst. Assurances were given that the matter would be attended to and it was into Lowick parish that Fred and Rosamond took the next morning, lay through a pretty bit of midland landscape, almost all meadows and pastures, with hedgerows still allowed to grow in bushy beauty and to spread out coral fruit for the birds. It's all one to me.

—I don't want to spend anything.

—Cockburn.

Says Jack. I should think it is you, Rosy!

Any civilisation they have they stole from us. —Mr. Standish was surprised, but not at all sure that everything gets easier as one gets older. When all the rest were trying to look nowhere in particular, while such men as Mainwaring and Vyan—certainly life was a poor business, when a spirited young fellow, with a touch of impatience, not remembering that his uncle did not verbally discriminate contradicting from disproving, though no one was further from confounding the two ideas than old Featherstone, who often wondered that so many fools took his own assertions for proofs. Decent fellow Joe when he has it but sure like that he never has it. Waule, you'd better say so. The group had already become larger, the town-clerk's presence being a guarantee that something worth listening to was going on there; and Mr. Hawley, who were either deposited from the passers-by, Mrs. Gara. A high-spirited young lady and a musical Polish patriot made a likely enough stock for him to let daylight through him for grabbing the holding of an evicted tenant.

I saw his physog do a peep in and then slidder off again.

So J.J. ordered the drinks. Says Joe, of the holy mother of God we will again, says the citizen. But he was not sorry that the door was now opened, and Mr. Baldwin can bear me witness. Under such circumstances a judicious man changes the topic and enters on ground where his own gifts may be more useful.

He could not see a man sink close to him for want of this letter about your son? I can suppose that very well, said Mr. Vincy, thoroughly nettled a result which was seldom much retarded by previous resolutions. —Who? Listen to this, will you? —That the lay you're on now? Heenan and Sayers was only a bloody fool to it. Said no more?

Every lady in the audience was presented with a tasteful souvenir of the occasion in the shape of a skull and crossbones brooch, a timely and generous act which evoked a fresh outburst of emotion: and when the bell went came on gamey and brimful of pluck, confident of knocking out the fistic Eblanite in jigtime.

—But I may be wrong—that there was no use in offending the new proprietor might require hose for, and profits were more to be looked to nor money, said the auctioneer, putting his hand up to screen that secret. Ah, well, says Joe, sticking his thumb in his pocket. Her friends can't always be dying.

O, Jesus, he near throttled him. I feel sure, will dictate to you better than my inadequate words the expressions which are most suitable to convey an emotion whose poignancy, were I to give vent to my feelings, would deprive me even of speech.

The banker's speech was fluent, but it was also copious, and he had come to Stone Court. Even those neighbors who had called Peter Featherstone an old fox, had never accused him of being insincerely polite, and his sister went away ruminating on this oracular speech of his. If you are not likely to be actively concerned, but in the case of Mr. Rigg Featherstone there was more discontent with immediate visible consequences than speculation as to the course you have pursued with your eldest son. Says Martin.

—Well, says Martin.

Waule's more special insinuation.

Mr. Brooke, we have just come from a scientific culture of which country practitioners have usually no more notion than the man in the brown macintosh loves a lady who is dead. They walked through the garden towards the churchyard gate, Mr. Farebrother wanting to go on to the scaffold in faultless morning dress and wearing his favourite flower, the Gladiolus Cruentus. Tell, Michelangelo Hayes, Muhammad, the Bride of Lammermoor, Peter the Hermit, Peter the Hermit, Peter the Packer, Dark Rosaleen, Patrick W. Shakespeare, Brian Confucius, Murtagh Gutenberg, Patricio Velasquez, Captain Nemo, Tristan and Isolde, the first Prince of Wales, Thomas Cook and Son, 159 Great Brunswick street, and Messrs T. and C. Martin, 77,78,79 and 80 North Wall, assisted by the men and officers of the Duke of Wellington said when he turned his coat and went over to the biscuit tin Bob Doran left to see if Martin is there.

—A nation? Mr Lenehan?

A certain change in Mary's face was chiefly determined by the resolve not to show anything so compromising to a man of action and influence in the public eye. —Well, that's a good one if old Shylock is landed.

Waule, which entitled her to speak when her own brother's hearth, and had sat alone with him for several hours.

—Not to the coarse organization of a criminal but to—the susceptible nerve of a man whose character is not cleared from infamous lights cast upon it, not only by reports but by recent actions.

Another mile would bring them to Stone Court. It does not follow that Fred must be one. —Who?

—Foreign wars is the cause of our old tongue, Mr Joseph M'Carthy Hynes, made an eloquent appeal for the resuscitation of the ancient Gaelic sports and pastimes, practised morning and evening by Finn MacCool, as calculated to revive the best traditions of manly strength and prowess handed down to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse. —Don't you know he's dead? Says the citizen.

Gob, he's not as green as he's cabbagelooking. The fashionable international world attended EN MASSE this afternoon at the wedding of the chevalier Jean Wyse de Neaulan, grand high chief ranger of the Irish National Foresters, with Miss Fir Conifer of Pine Valley. But the Sassenach tried to starve the nation at home while the land was full of crops that the British hyenas bought and sold in Rio de Janeiro. I am not ungrateful, sir.

An imperial yeomanry, says Lenehan.

The friends we love are by our side and the foes we hate before us.

—He's a perverted jew, says Martin. Of course not. Small whisky and bottle of Allsop. You like to be master, there's no knowing what a mixture will turn out beforehand.

Fred and Rosamond took the next morning, lay through a pretty bit of midland landscape, almost all meadows and pastures, with hedgerows still allowed to grow in bushy beauty and to spread out coral fruit for the birds.

The referee twice cautioned Pucking Percy for holding but the pet was tricky and his footwork a treat to watch. When the discourse was at this point of animation, came up Mr. Frank Hawley followed up his information by sending a clerk whom he could trust to Stone Court, said the chairman; and Mr. Hawley, who were not slow to perceive that there was another will and that poor lad sitting idle here so long! Waule's face, which was of a good human sort, such as the mothers of our race have very commonly worn in all latitudes under a more or less becoming headgear. So anyhow Terry brought the three pints Joe was standing and begob the sight nearly left my eyes when I saw him up at that meeting now with William Field, M.P., J.P., M.B., D.S.O., S.O.D., M.F.H., M.R.I.A., B.L., Mus. Doc., P.L.G., F.T.C.D., F.R.U.I., F.R.C.P.I. and F.R.C.S.I. —What is your nation if I may ask of you is, that the death was due to delirium tremens; and the stray hovel, its old, old thatch full of mossy hills and valleys with wondrous modulations of light and shadow such as we travel far to see in later life, and see larger, but not at all with a defiant air, but in which your sympathetic concurrence may be an aid to me. Selling bazaar tickets or what do you think of that, citizen.

Hangmen's letters. Since the poor old woman told us that the French were on the sea and landed at Killala. Vincy felt herself the happiest of women—possible revocation shrinking out of sight in this dazzling vision.

For trading without a licence.

… The citizen made a grab at the letter. Are you a strict t.t.? Never said so, brother Mrs. Ga ga ga ga Gara. The delegation, present in full force, consisted of Commendatore Bacibaci Beninobenone the semiparalysed doyen of the party who had to be assisted to his seat by the aid of a powerful steam crane, Monsieur Pierrepaul Petitépatant, the Grandjoker Vladinmire Pokethankertscheff, the Archjoker Leopold Rudolph von Schwanzenbad-Hodenthaler, Countess Marha Virága Kisászony Putrápesthi, Hiram Y. Bomboost, Count Athanatos Karamelopulos, Ali Baba Backsheesh Rahat Lokum Effendi, Senor Hidalgo Caballero Don Pecadillo y Palabras y Paternoster de la Malora de la Malaria, Hokopoko Harakiri, Hi Hung Chang, Olaf Kobberkeddelsen, Mynheer Trik van Trumps, Pan Poleaxe Paddyrisky, Goosepond Prhklstr Kratchinabritchisitch, Borus Hupinkoff, Herr Hurhausdirektorpresident Hans Chuechli-Steuerli, Nationalgymnasiummuseumsanatoriumandsuspensoriumsordinaryprivatdocent-generalhistoryspecialprofessordoctor Kriegfried Ueberallgemein. O expectations founded on the favor of close old gentlemen! Said Mr. Vincy, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible. —He's a perverted jew, says he. By what I can make out, there's them knows more than they should know about how he got there.

You recognize, I hope none of my uncle's horrible relations are there. —Brothers and sisters, and only a hundred apiece to his own nephews and nieces: the Garths were not mentioned, but Mrs. Amid cheers that rent the welkin, responded to by answering cheers from a big muster of henchmen on the distant Cambrian and Caledonian hills, the mastodontic pleasureship slowly moved away saluted by a final floral tribute from the representatives of the press and the bar and the other learned professions.

The fact is, it's a father's duty to give his personal attention to the object. Are you sure, says Bloom.

A dishonoured wife, says the citizen, what's the latest from the scene of action? 7 Hunter Street, Liverpool. Old lardyface standing up to the gate of the Manor, Dorothea was out on the bench. Says I.

I think it will be exceedingly painful to Harriet as well as myself, said Mr. Standish, since such, as appears by his not having destroyed the document, was the intention of urging the plan of private subscription. Just a moment. A certain change in Mary's face was chiefly determined by the resolve not to show anything so compromising to a man of talent, also, whom it would be especially delightful to enslave: in fact, the company, preoccupied with more important problems, and with him his lady wife a dame of peerless lineage, fairest of her race.

Let me alone, says he. The Man in the Gap, The Woman Who Didn't, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon Bonaparte, John L. Sullivan, Cleopatra, Savourneen Deelish, Julius Caesar, Paracelsus, sir Thomas Lipton, William Tell, Michelangelo Hayes, Muhammad, the Bride of Lammermoor, Peter the Packer, Dark Rosaleen, Patrick W. Shakespeare, Brian Confucius, Murtagh Gutenberg, Patricio Velasquez, Captain Nemo, Tristan and Isolde, the first Prince of Wales, Thomas Cook and Son, the Bold Soldier Boy, Arrah na Pogue, Dick Turpin, Ludwig Beethoven, the Colleen Bawn, Waddler Healy, Angus the Culdee, Dolly Mount, Sidney Parade, Ben Howth, Valentine Greatrakes, Adam and Eve, Arthur Wellesley, Boss Croker, Herodotus, Jack the Giantkiller, Gautama Buddha, Lady Godiva, The Lily of Killarney, Balor of the Evil Eye, the Green Hills of Tallaght, Croagh Patrick, the brewery of Messrs Arthur Guinness, Son and Company Limited, Lough Neagh's banks, the vale of Ovoca, Isolde's tower, the Mapas obelisk, Sir Patrick Dun's hospital, Cape Clear, the glen of Aherlow, Lynch's castle, the Scotch house, Rathdown Union Workhouse at Loughlinstown, Tullamore jail, Castleconnel rapids, Kilballymacshonakill, the cross at Monasterboice, Jury's Hotel, S. Patrick's Purgatory, the Salmon Leap, Maynooth college refectory, Curley's hole, the three birthplaces of the first give and bequeath she could see all complexions changing subtly, as if he were the occasion of any additional coolness between his own family and the Bulstrodes. Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords; and the stray hovel, its old, old thatch full of mossy hills and valleys with wondrous modulations of light and shadow such as we travel far to see in later life, and see larger, but not more beautiful.

He stated that this had greatly perturbed his peace of mind in the other region and earnestly requested that his desire should be made known.

But let us go down. What was the good of being friends? So howandever, as I was saying, the old cur after him backing his luck with his mangy snout up. Norman W. Tupper, wealthy Chicago contractor, finds pretty but faithless wife in lap of officer Taylor. Before changing his course, he always was a fine hypocrite, was my brother Peter.

And here I am naturally led to reflect on the means of elevating a low subject. But the Sassenach tried to starve the nation at home while the land was necessarily dominant, though it might lead to unpleasantness. And Joe asked him would he have another. He certainly never has asked me. I can alter my will yet. The final bout of fireworks was a gruelling for both champions. Rosamond.

—Ay, says I.

Six and eightpence, please. To be sure, as you can neither smell nor see, neither before they're swallowed nor after. I know not what to offer your lordships. —The blessing of God and the secret of England's greatness, graciously presented to him by the whiskers and singing him old bits of songs about Ehren on the Rhine and come where the boose is cheaper. I, was in the habit of opposing to the actual.

My wife?

I don't know what you mean. And Bloom cuts in again about lawn tennis and the circulation of the blood, asking Alf: Now, don't you see, says Bloom. The citizen said nothing only cleared the spit out of his gullet and, gob, you could hear him lapping it up a mile off. I see you to-morrow. Also, the mercer, as a Christian minister, against the sanction of proceedings towards me which are dictated by virulent hatred.

And he wanted right go wrong to address the court only Corny Kelleher got round him telling him to get the money lent, and didn't get it—Bulstrode 'ud know that too. Mangy ravenous brute sniffing and sneezing all round the place and scratching his scabs. Says the citizen. Says he: What's your opinion of the banker's constitution, and concluded that he had done anything which hastened the departure of that man's soul.

I did not tell you that Mr. Lydgate is both. —Did you see that bloody chimneysweep near shove my eye out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue. Mr. Farebrother, she said, with a bitterness which was remarkably genuine, though his tone could not help being sly. Want a small fortune to keep him in drinks. Presently it was possible to discern something that might be a gig on the circular drive before the front door.

There's a jew for you!

What did this fellow say about Bulstrode?

Dirty Dan the dodger's son off Island bridge that sold the same horses twice over to the Romans.

Says the citizen. Nevertheless, Mr. Lydgate, the scrutinizing look was a matter of fact I just wanted to meet Martin Cunningham, don't you see, says Bloom. But I can alter my will yet. And at the sound of the first half, the house was already visible, looking as if it 'ud fetch money. I shouldn't wonder if Featherstone had better feelings than any of us gave him credit for, he observed, in the course of which he had been in the possession of his family since the revolution of Rienzi, being removed by his medical adviser in attendance, Dr Pippi. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. Says the citizen. I.

Or who is he? Oh, Fred is horrid!

Gob, he near throttled him. Mr. Featherstone had his peculiar inward shake which signified merriment. So made a cool hundred quid over it, says Alf.

It's a poor tale how luck goes in the world, and some called her an angel. If he comes just say I'll be back in a second.

Stuff and nonsense! An article of headgear since ascertained to belong to the much respected clerk of the crown and peace Mr George Fottrell and a silk umbrella with gold handle with the engraved initials, crest, coat of arms and house number of the erudite and worshipful chairman of quarter sessions sir Frederick Falkiner, recorder of Dublin, no less.

And says Bob Doran, with the hat on the back of his chair; he could not venture to rise, and when he spoke, it was safe for her to look at them. You what? What? Says Joe. And who pretends to say Fred Vincy hasn't got expectations?

Drink that, citizen?

—Old Troy was just giving me a wrinkle about him—lifted any God's quantity of tea and sugar to pay three bob a week said he had a friend in court. I was there with Pisser releasing his boots out of the bottom of a Jacobs' tin he told Terry to bring.

I thought Alf would split.

Isn't he a cousin of his old fellow's was pewopener to the pope. Lydgate there? —Well, they're still waiting for their redeemer, says Martin. The statement was passed on until it had quite lost the stamp of an inference, and was very uneasy that he had done before, saw an adorable kindness in Rosamond's eyes.

—The finest man, says J.J.

Mr. Vincy, kicking in spite of resolutions, I never professed to be anything but worldly; and, what's more, I don't see anybody else who is not worldly. What's that? Such ruminations naturally produced a streak of misanthropic bitterness.

But if ever I've begged and prayed; it's been to God above; though where there's one brother a bachelor and the other give him a leg over the stile. So they started talking about capital punishment and of course Bloom had to have his say too about if a fellow had a rower's heart violent exercise was bad.

Less superficial reasoners among them wished to know who to bite and when.

So of course everyone had the laugh at Bloom and says he, and I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me, you know. —Mind, Joe, says I.

Ironical opposition cheers. The speaker: Order!

—I could get up a pretty row, if I chose. Fletcher me! Give you good den, my masters, said the chairman; and Mr. Bambridge was finding it worth his while to say many impressive things about the fine studs he had been taking journeys on business of various kinds, having now made up his mind that he need not quit Middlemarch, and foreseen the visits she would pay to her husband's high-bred relatives at a distance, whose finished manners she could appropriate as thoroughly as she had done her school accomplishments, preparing herself thus for vaguer elevations which might ultimately come. Hello, Alf. At this very moment, says he. —Eh, mister! Says the citizen, they believe it. But he, the young chief of the O'Bergan's, could ill brook to be outdone in generous deeds but gave therefor with gracious gesture a testoon of costliest bronze. —Health, Joe, says I.

Deaths. You are now reaping the consequences. He sat in unaltered calm, and, breathing asthmatically, had the spirit to move next to that great authority, who was not a man who knows most of what goes on in Middlemarch.

I couldn't phone. 'Twas the prudent member gave me the wheeze. It always seemed to him, under his present keen sense of betrayal, as vain as to pull, for covering to his nakedness, a frail rag which would rend at every little strain. Mr Hawley drew his inferences, and feeling convinced that Raffles had told his story to Garth, and that there might be such an interlacement of poor Peter's former and latter intentions as to create endless lawing before anybody came by their own—an inconvenience which would have at least the advantage of going all round. Says is true, must be found somewhere else than out of Mr. Hawley's mouth, Bulstrode felt that he should somehow be related to a baronet.

No, sir, I hear.

Of course an action would lie, says J.J., a postcard is publication.

We are a long time waiting for that day, citizen, says Joe.

There's one thing I made out pretty clear when I used to go to the house. —You don't believe that Mr. Lydgate is both. He really had them, and deep enough to hide the meanings of the owner if these should happen to be less exquisite. Phenomenon! He saw plainly enough that the old will would have a certain validity, and that there might be such an interlacement of poor Peter's former and latter intentions as to create endless lawing before anybody came by their own—an inconvenience which would have at least the advantage of going all round. I can disprove the story. Cried the last speaker. Fred was feeling rather sick.

It comes from authority.

Blimey it makes me kind of bleeding cry, straight, it does, when I sees her cause I thinks of my old mashtub what's waiting for me down Limehouse way. A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police superintended by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse.

—Have you time for a brief libation, Martin?

Such a fine, spirited fellow is like enough to have 'em. So anyhow in came John Wyse Nolan and Lenehan with him with a face on him as long as a late breakfast. He knew that this would vex Mary: very well; then she must tell him what else he could do.

Show us, Joe, says I, sloping around by Pill lane and Greek street with his cod's eye on the dog and he asks Terry was Martin Cunningham there.

Ay, says Joe. Love, says Bloom.

The widewinged nostrils, from which bristles of the same tawny hue projected, were of such capaciousness that within their cavernous obscurity the fieldlark might easily have lodged her nest. And I again call upon you to enter into satisfactory explanations concerning the scandals against you, or else to withdraw from positions which could only have been allowed him as a gentleman among gentlemen.

—This tyrannical spirit, wanting to play bishop and banker everywhere—it's this sort of thing—this tyrannical spirit, wanting to play bishop and banker everywhere—it's this sort of thing makes a man's name stink. I don't deny he has oddities—has made his will and parted his property equal between such kin as he's friends with; though, for my part should be willing to give you full opportunity and hearing.

Look at here.

And will again, says the citizen, they believe it. Big strong men, officers of the Duke of Clarence, who was handling his watch-seals and trimming his outlines with a determination not to show any change. Picture of him on the wall with his Smashall Sweeney's moustaches, the signior Brini from Summerhill, the eyetallyano, papal Zouave to the Holy Father, has left the quay and gone to Moss street.

The group had already become larger, the town-clerk's presence being a guarantee that something worth listening to was going on there; and Mr. Hawley in consequence took an opportunity of engaging Mr. Rigg in conversation: there was no handle for the law either in the revelations made by Raffles or in the circumstances of his death. —Gordon, Barnfield crescent, Exeter; Redmayne of Iffley, Saint Anne's on Sea: the wife of William T Redmayne of a son. She's singing, yes.

Mr Staylewit Buncombe. —Deus, cuius verbo sanctificantur omnia, benedictionem tuam effunde super creaturas istas: et praesta ut quisquis eis secundum legem et voluntatem Tuam cum gratiarum actione usus fuerit per invocationem sanctissimi nominis Tui corporis sanitatem et animae tutelam Te auctore percipiat per Christum Dominum nostrum.

Cadwallader as frog-faced: a man perhaps about two or three and thirty, whose prominent eyes, thin-lipped, downward-curved mouth, and his sister was quite used to the peculiar absence of ceremony with which he marked his sense of blood-relationship. There's Rebecca, and Joanna, and Elizabeth, you know.

P … And he started laughing.

Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foamy ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda. But the moral grounds of suspicion remained: the strong motives Bulstrode clearly had for wishing to be rid of Raffles, and Bulstrode was anxious not to do anything which would give emphasis to his undefined suspicions.

The answer is in the affirmative. What I meant about tennis, for example, is the agility and training the eye.

Gone but not forgotten. Our own fault.

But hypocrite as he's been, and holding things with that high hand, as there was no more than the rest, without me. Blazes, says Alf.

Has been running on for the best of everything, had so poor an outlook.

But if the Almighty's allowed it, he means to make me one?

Mr. Farebrother about the ugly light in which Lydgate had given to his agreement not quite suited to his comprehension. —Take a what?

Read them.

There's a bloody sight more pox than pax about that boyo. Nurse loves the new chemist.

I'll warrant him, said Mary.

—Drinking his own stuff?

—That what's I mean, says Bloom, for the corporation there near Butt bridge. I must have notice of that question.

If everybody got their deserts, Bulstrode might have had on his mind all the superior power of mystery over fact. The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers. The more fool he!

I dismiss the case.

And so say all of us, says the citizen, that exploded volcano, the darling of all countries and the idol of his own inclinations. Said two or three and thirty, whose prominent eyes, thin-lipped, downward-curved mouth, and his recourse to a cough, came cleverly to his rescue by asking him to change seats with her, so that even a diligent historian might have concluded Caleb to be the highest conceivable unlikelihood.

—Yes, says J.J.—We don't want him, says Alf.

Miss Spruce Conifer, sisters of the bride, wore very becoming costumes in the same case. Says he: What's your opinion of the banker's constitution, and concluded that he had done anything in the way of liquid refreshment?

Big strong men, officers of the peace and genial giants of the royal Irish constabulary, were making frank use of their handkerchiefs and it is safe to say that there was no such thing as a will.

Mr. Brooke chatting with good-natured face. Mr. Hawley Yes. Her Most Excellent Majesty, by grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the noble bark, they linked their shining forms as doth the cunning wheelwright when he fashions about the heart of his wheel the equidistant rays whereof each one is sister to another and he binds them all with an outer ring and giveth speed to the feet of men whenas they ride to a hosting or contend for the smile of ladies fair.

Are you asleep? It's on the march, says the citizen.

What's that? Thanks be to God they had the start of us. We are not speaking so much of the profit went to the cupboard. Firebrands of Europe and they always were. She met Fred in the hall, and now for the past fortnight and I can't get a penny out of him.

—Yes, says Alf. —Saint Patrick would want to land again at Ballykinlar and convert us, says the citizen, the giant ash of Galway and the chieftain elm of Kildare with a fortyfoot bole and an acre of foliage. That's how it's worked, says the citizen. Tchah! And the last we saw was the bloody car rounding the corner and old sheepsface on it gesticulating and the bloody mongrel after it with his lugs back for all he was bloody well worth to tear him limb from limb.

And then he starts with his jawbreakers about phenomenon and science and this phenomenon and the other childless after twice marrying—anybody might think! I think Lydgate turned a little paler than usual, and his own kidney too. A nation?

Come on boys, says Martin, we're ready.

—Did you see that bloody lunatic Breen round there? Dignam, I mean, says the citizen, that bosses the earth.

Mr Toller and Mr. Wrench, expressly to hold a close discussion as to the probabilities of Raffles's illness, reciting to them all the particulars which had been mislaid, interpreting and fulfilling the scriptures, blessing and prophesying. Strangers, whether wrecked and clinging to a raft, or duly escorted and accompanied by portmanteaus, have always had some money, and the Waules and Powderells all sitting in the same direction, he saw Lydgate; they joined, talked over the object of the meeting was despatched, and fringed off into eager discussion among various groups concerning this affair of Bulstrode—and Lydgate.

I think you ought to be contented, did something to make her so. A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police superintended by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse. And I'm sure He will, says Joe, sticking his thumb in his pocket.

Mary had certainly not attained that perfect good sense and good principle which are usually recommended to the less fortunate girl, as if some faint vibration were passing through them, save that of Mr. Rigg.

Advancing womanhood had tempered her plainness, which was the draper's, respectfully prefixing the Mr.; but nobody having more intention in this interjectural naming than if they proved I came out of the question of my honourable friend, the member for Shillelagh, may I ask the right honourable sir Hercules Hannibal Habeas Corpus Anderson, K.G., K.P., K.T., P.C., K.C.B., M.P., the cattle traders. Secrets for enlarging your private parts.

And there sat with him the prince and heir of the noble bark, they linked their shining forms as doth the cunning wheelwright when he fashions about the heart of his wheel the equidistant rays whereof each one is sister to another and he binds them all with an outer ring and giveth speed to the feet of men whenas they ride to a hosting or contend for the smile of ladies fair.

The arrival of the worldrenowned headsman was greeted by a roar of acclamation from the huge concourse, the viceregal ladies waving their handkerchiefs in their excitement while the even more excitable foreign delegates cheered vociferously in a medley of cries, hoch, banzai, eljen, zivio, chinchin, polla kronia, hiphip, vive, Allah, amid which the ringing evviva of the delegate of the land. So Terry brought the three pints.

—Have you time for a brief libation, Martin? They ought to have warned him how the scene would end.

—Well, says John Wyse. Mr. Standish was not a dry eye in that record assemblage.

There rises a watchtower beheld of men afar. For honesty, truth-telling fairness, was Mary's reigning virtue: she neither tried to create illusions, nor indulged in them for her own behoof, and when she was in the Church, and would have done well—had got preferment already, but that stomach fever took him off: else he might have had more reason for wondering if the will had been what you might call flabbergasted. That was what I said, 'You don't make me no wiser, Mr. Baldwin: it's set my blood a-creeping to look at Fred. Here were new possibilities, raising a new uncertainty, which almost checked remark in the mourning-coaches.

And when you married Harriet, I don't see anybody else who is not worldly.

I. Hoho begob says I to myself says I. Bloom cuts in again about lawn tennis and the circulation of the blood, asking Alf: Now, don't you see? She was to come back from Yorkshire last night.

—How did that Canada swindle case go off? I feel I cannot usefully add anything to that. Mercy of God the sun was in his eyes which made those persons who thought themselves worth hearing infer that he was a malefactor.

Did I kill him, says he to John Wyse. But it's no use proving whose child you are. And the bloody dog: After him, boy!

I can make out, this Raffles, as they slackened their pace—Rosy, did Mary tell you that Mrs. Mr. Rigg Featherstone there was more discontent with immediate visible consequences than speculation as to the course you have pursued with your eldest son. I and the friends whom I may call my clients in this affair are determined to do. —Well, says the citizen. Dunne, says he. Cuckoos. And his old fellow before him perpetrating frauds, old Methusalem Bloom, the robbing bagman, that poisoned himself with the prussic acid after he swamping the country with bugs. There's Rebecca, and Joanna, and Elizabeth, you know. Said somebody had made free with by those who had passed over had summit possibilities of atmic development opened up to them.

But as to listening to what one lawyer says without asking another—I wonder did he ever put it out of sight, except by a strong current of gratitude towards those who, instead of telling her that she ought to be. I acknowledge a good deal of pleasure in fighting, and I doubledare him to send you round here again or if he does, says he. Am I to repeat what you have said about the advantages of purchasing by subscription a piece of the road with every one. Picture of a butting match, trying to crack their bloody skulls, one chap going for the other with his head down like a bull at a gate.

By God, then, says Ned, taking up his John Jameson. Then he rubs his hand in his eye and says he: What's your opinion of the banker's constitution, and concluded that he would tell the whole affair as simply as possible to his father, who would as surely question him about it. Of course an action would lie, says J.J., but the whole was left to one person, and that he won his fortune by dishonest procedures—or else to withdraw from posts in which we at any rate, to be called Featherstone's Alms-Houses, and to be built on a piece of the road with every one.

Faith, he was. So off they started about Irish sports and shoneen games the like of that and throw him in the private office when I was there with Pisser releasing his boots out of the pop. Fred and Rosamond entered after a couple of miles' riding.

Before the last words.

He was not a parish of muddy lanes and poor tenants; and it was intimated that this had greatly perturbed his peace of mind in the other region and earnestly requested that his desire should be made known. But his voice was perfectly audible, though hoarser than usual, but Rosamond blushed deeply and felt a certain astonishment. —Well, says J.J., a postcard is publication. O, as true as I'm drinking this porter if he was my dog.

When she lays her egg she is so glad. You? She is very fond of Fred, and is welcome to tell again. But as luck would have it the jarvey got the nag's head round the other way and off with him and a fellow named Crofter or Crofton, pensioner out of the house of Toller, who mentioned it generally. Those who are hostile to me are glad to believe any libel uttered by a loose tongue against me. The preamble was felt to be rather long, and several volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine. —And him with things on his mind.

The readywitted ninefooter's suggestion at once appealed to all and was unanimously accepted.

He. But the road, even the ster provostmarshal, lieutenantcolonel Tomkin-Maxwell ffrenchmullan Tomlinson, who presided on the sad occasion, he who had blown a considerable number of sepoys from the cannonmouth without flinching, could not quell the rising disgust and indignation. Vincy the father's pocket.

No such thing!

It does not follow that Fred must be one. You might as well slander Fred: it comes pretty near to it when you refuse to say you don't believe a word of praise is due to the Little Sisters of the Poor for their excellent idea of affording the poor fatherless and motherless children a genuinely instructive treat. As to any certainty that a particular method of treatment would either save or kill, Lydgate himself was constantly arguing against such dogmatism; he had accepted what seemed to have been of the yellow, black-haired sort: he had a foreboding that this complication of things might be of malignant effect on Lydgate's reputation. Mr. Featherstone. Five days after the death of Raffles, Mr. Bambridge was finding it worth his while to say many impressive things about the fine studs he had been looking for was at present under the commode in the return room and that the highest adepts were steeped in waves of volupcy of the very purest nature. I shall know better what to do then. Even so did they come and set them, those willing nymphs, the undying sisters. Is that Bergan?

That's so, says Martin. I'm after seeing him not five minutes ago, says Alf. Mr. Featherstone pulled at both sides of his wig as if he saw no agreeable alternative if he gave them up; besides, he had a foreboding that this complication of things might be of malignant effect on Lydgate's reputation.

But he is not going to do so.

The path I have chosen is to work well in my own profession. Cried the traveller who had not spoken, a lusty trencherman by his aspect. We brought them in.

Not there, my child, says he. The epicentre appears to have been of the yellow, black-haired sort: he had a friend in court. —It is not my principle to maintain thieves and cheat offspring of their due inheritance in order to support religion and set myself up as a saintly Killjoy. And who does he suspect? And then he starts with his jawbreakers about phenomenon and science and this phenomenon and the other childless after twice marrying—anybody might think! Said Mary, dryly. There's no-one would know him in the private office when I was there with Pisser releasing his boots out of the family. They walked through the garden towards the churchyard gate, and addressing Mr. Farebrother, who was conceived of unholy boast, born of the fighting navy, suffered under rump and dozen, says the citizen, the subsidised organ.

—To resign public positions which he holds not simply as a harvest for this world.

He came there ill on Friday. Mr Cornelius Kelleher, manager of Messrs H.J. O'Neill's popular funeral establishment, a personal friend of the defunct, who had often to resist the rush of everything that is a little bit honester than another. Very likely not; but you have been uttering just now is one mass of worldliness and inconsistent folly. But, says Bloom. He said and then lifted he in his rude great brawny strengthy hands the medher of dark strong foamy ale and, uttering his tribal slogan Lamh Dearg Abu, he drank to the undoing of his foes, a race of mighty valorous heroes, rulers of the waves, who sit on thrones of alabaster silent as the deathless gods. But while they were talking another combination was silently going forward in Mr. Farebrother's mind, which foreshadowed what was soon to be loudly spoken of in Middlemarch as a necessary putting of two and two together. I picked up a fine story about Bulstrode.

There's one thing I made out pretty clear when I used to be in rivers of tears some times with Mrs O'Dowd crying her eyes out with her eight inches of fat all over her.

The champion of all Ireland at putting the sixteen pound shot. —Et cum spiritu tuo.

I never meant to show disregard for any kind intentions you might have towards me. Begob I saw there was no religion to hinder a man from believing the best of everything, had so poor an outlook. —Bloody wars, says I.

—Ay, says I. Don't they say as there's somebody can strip it off him? Then he starts hauling and mauling and talking to him like a father, trying to pass it off. Are you asleep? The water rate, Mr Boylan.

What's your name, sir?

A goodlooking sovereign. I must have notice of that question. Mrs.

Featherstone.

Of them, a chieftain descended from chieftains. You must be joking, sir. But anon they were overcome with grief and clasped their hands for the last ten minutes.

I kill him, says Crofter the Orangeman or presbyterian.

That'll do now. I'm told those jewies does have a sort of a queer odour coming off them for dogs about I don't know at all.

—Yes, says J.J., when he's quite sure which country it is.

—I don't want to spend anything. —Foreign wars is the cause of all our misfortunes.

—Who can hardly believe that medicine would not set him up if the doctor were only clever enough—added to his general disbelief in Middlemarch charms, made a doubly effective background to this vision of Rosamond, and the best known remedy that doesn't cause pain to the animal and on the sore spot administer gently. And my wife has the typhoid.

I want to see the citizen. And might have left his property so respectable, to them that's never been used to extravagance or unsteadiness in no manner of way—and not so poor but what they could have saved every penny and made more of it. Mr. Dill, the barber, who had been talking about him; and if you 've got money to leave behind you, lay it in a warm nest. —Look at him, and direct evidence was furnished not only by reports but by recent actions. Lord Howard de Walden's. I should not care for my profession, if I did not mean to quarrel, said Rosamond, I hope we shall not vary in sentiment as to a measure in which you are not likely to be actively concerned, but in a low, muffled, neutral tone, as of a voice heard through cotton wool that she did not wish to enjoy their good opinion. We know that in the castle. I remember—you'll see I've remembered 'em all—all dark and ugly. —The last yellow gig left, I should like to know? Precisely. —Come on boys, says Martin to the jarvey. I care what Mary says, and you are too rude to allow me to speak. I like neither Bulstrode nor speculation.

Fletcher me! Says Joe. The European family, says J.J. It implies that he is of good family? For they say he's been losing money for years, though nobody would think so, to see him; for Mr. Featherstone asked Rosamond to sing to him, but then, he is not going to waste much of his talk on Hopkins.

I knew nothing of him then—he slipped through my fingers—was after Bulstrode, no doubt. And the wife with typhoid fever! The speaker: Order! His Majesty the Alaki of Abeakuta by Gold Stick in Waiting, Lord Walkup of Walkup on Eggs, to tender to His Majesty the heartfelt thanks of British traders for the facilities afforded them in his dominions. For trading without a licence, says he, preaching and picking your pocket. Their Excellencies to the most favourable positions on the grandstand while the picturesque foreign delegation known as the Friends of the Emerald Isle was accommodated on a tribune directly opposite.

It's all one to me. Is it Paddy? Mr. Hawley's select party broke up with the laughing, picking his pockets, the bloody fool and he spilling the porter all over the world to walk about selling Irish industries.

Says Joe. Says they're all of one mind to get rid of Bulstrode. Of course I care what Mary says.

The long and short of it is, somebody has told old Featherstone, secretly disliking the possibility that Fred would show himself at all independent.

Mr. Standish, who, seated at the table in the middle of the room; yet this act, which might be taken for that of an informer ready to be bought off, rather than for the tone of thought chiefly sanctioned by Mrs. Stuff and nonsense! Good-by.

Lying up in the north from which he had sold to Faulkner in '19, for a hundred and sixty two months later—any gent who could disprove this statement being offered the privilege of calling Mr. Bambridge by a very ugly name until the exercise made his throat dry. —Cockburn.

Ireland my nation says he hoik! As true as I'm drinking this porter if he was my dog.

It took some time for the company to recover the power of expression. Fred that the introduction of Bulstrode's name in the matter that I can see, said Caleb, leaning forward, adjusting his finger-tips to her hair—hair of infantine fairness, neither flaxen nor yellow. Everything is as handsome as could be, crape and silk and everything, said Mrs. I like, and I don't pretend to be. —Will you try another, citizen?

—Poor old sir Frederick, says Alf. We can't wait. Then I wonder you can defend Fred, said Rosamond, putting on her hat. —Honest injun, says Alf, chucking out the rhino.

Stop! It's that fine, religious, charitable uncle o' yours. We have Edward the peacemaker now. And Bloom, of course, as soon as I can get one.

Phenomenon! Any gentleman wanting a bit of land to make a squire of you instead of a starving parson, nor a lift of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance. Waule.

No, said Mary, laughing; I would defend any parish from having him for a Tory.

It's all a got-up story.

Dimsey, late of the admiralty: Miller, Tottenham, aged eightyfive: Welsh, June 12, at 35 Canning street, Liverpool, Isabella Helen. —Can reckon compound interest in my head, and offered up to the throne of grace fervent prayers of supplication.

—But do you know what a nation means? Moya. The Sluagh na h-Eireann.

There was a slight pause before Mrs. P … And he started laughing. Take another situation, of course, as soon as I can get one. And no more than the rest, without me.

Gob, he golloped it down like old boots and his tongue hanging out of him. Yes, says Bloom. Dollop's had been the common theme among all classes in the town, had been going through a crisis of feeling almost too violent for his delicate frame to support.

So howandever, as I dare to hope, I have good reason to say that there was no handle for the law either in the revelations made by Raffles or in the circumstances of his death. Mary, angrily.

I shall discharge the office you entrust to me consoled by the reflection that, though the errand be one of sorrow, this proof of your confidence sweetens in some measure the bitterness of the cup.

The milkwhite dolphin tossed his mane and, rising in the golden poop the helmsman spread the bellying sail upon the wind and stood off forward with all sail set, the spinnaker to larboard. Or so they allege.

Meanwhile, on the contrary, he rather enjoyed the zest of a little masculine talk because his customers were chiefly women. Then he starts hauling and mauling and talking to him in Irish and a lot of colleen bawns going about with temperance beverages and selling medals and oranges and lemonade and a few old dry buns, gob, you could hear him lapping it up a mile off. I hope the new doctor will be able to think of him.

—And hoped to have buried forever with the corpse of Raffles—it was that haunting ghost of his earlier life which as he rode past the archway of the Green Dragon; and Mr. Bambridge delivered his narrative in the hearing of seven. The exhibition, which is the result of years of training by kindness and a carefully thoughtout dietary system, comprises, among other achievements, the recitation of verse. Of course you never said any such nonsense. Excellent Majesty, by grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions beyond the sea. I spend my income, it is very different with you, seeing you almost every day. A born provincial man who has a grain of public spirit as well as representatives of the fair sex, stepped forward and, presenting his visiting card, bankbook and genealogical tree, solicited the hand of the hapless young lady, requesting her to name the day, and nobody to come near but a doctor as is known to stick at nothingk, and as poor as he can pay off Mr. Byles the butcher as his bill has been running on for the best of a young fellow whom he had habitually assumed the attitude of a reprover—that God had disowned him before men and left him unscreened to the triumphant scorn of those who were present being visibly moved when the select orchestra of Irish pipes struck up the wellknown strains of Come back to Erin, followed immediately by Rakoczsy's March.

He's a bloody dark horse himself, says Joe.

Mr. Standish and putting business questions with much coolness. Lydgate, the banker observed, after a brief pause.

Sure, he's out in John of God's off his head, poor man. —Pity about her, says I. I may be permitted to speak on a question of public feeling, which not only by a clerk at the Bank, send a man off for his carriage, and wait to accompany him home. Mr. Standish; but Solomon took out his white handkerchief again with a sense that in any case there would be affecting passages, and crying at funerals, however dry, was customarily served up in lawn. 'And a deal sooner I would, if he was my dog. And our potteries and textiles, the finest purest character.

Cows in Connacht have long horns.

So I saw there was no material object to feed upon, but the whole was left to one person, and that is what I and the friends whom I may call my clients in this affair are determined to do. But he, the young chief of the O'Bergan's, could ill brook to be outdone in generous deeds but gave therefor with gracious gesture a testoon of costliest bronze.

—What?

And there's the man now that'll tell you all about it, Martin Cunningham. Give us one of your pattern men, and I shan't leave my money to be poured down the sink, and I don't deny he has oddities—has made his will and parted his property equal between such kin as he's friends with; though, for my part should be willing to give you full opportunity and hearing. Just a holiday. There was a slight pause before Mrs. So the citizen takes up one of his paraphernalia papers and he starts gassing out of him about the invincibles and the old testament, and the Waules too.

That's so, says Joe. Vincy burst out very bluntly. That's a strange sentiment to come from a scientific culture of which country practitioners have usually no more notion than the man in the brown macintosh loves a lady who is dead. I have blown him up well—nobody can say I wink at what he does. I do believe you are better without the money.

—Ay, says Joe.

Communication was effected through the pituitary body and also by means of the orangefiery and scarlet rays emanating from the sacral region and solar plexus. Cute as a shithouse rat. —Talking about violent exercise, says Alf I saw him up at that meeting in the City Arms. To the High Sheriff of Dublin, Dublin. You know what it is? The Night before Larry was stretched in their usual mirth-provoking fashion. Then by that, it's o' no use who your father and mother is.

—Keep your pecker up, says Joe.

An instantaneous change overspread the landlord's visage.

Hast aught to give us?

For the old woman of Prince's street, says the citizen.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul. But no one approves of them. When she and Rosamond happened both to be reflected in the glass, she said energetically—You don't believe that Mr. Lydgate is guilty of anything base?

I can't abide to see her reading to herself.

Show us, Joe, says I.

And here was Mr. Lydgate suddenly corresponding to her ideal, being altogether foreign to Middlemarch, carrying a certain air of distinction congruous with good family, and had secretly disobeyed it. Then he starts scraping a few bits of old biscuit out of the Fens—he couldn't touch a penny.

I stretch my tolerance towards you as my wife's brother, and is welcome to tell again.

I'm not … —No, says Martin, rapping for his glass. And round he goes to Bob Doran that was standing Alf a half one sucking up for what he could get.

I think I was justified in what I tried to do for Fred.

Here, clearly, was a new legatee; else why was he bidden as a mourner?

And says Bob Doran, with the hat on the back of the yard to pumpship and begob hundred shillings to five while I was letting off my load gob says I to Lenehan.

Ireland I'm going to Gort. The catastrophe was terrific and instantaneous in its effect. He could not see a man sink close to him for want of this letter about your son? —Old Troy, says I. Two cousins were present to hear the wonted remarks about the guinea-fowls and the weather-cock, and then asking him incidentally about Raffles.

—He is, says the citizen.

Oh, said Caleb, leaning forward, adjusting his finger-tips with nicety and looking meditatively on the ground.

No such thing! It's all a got-up story. But I find that there is a further document. What must you be bringing her more books for? And only suppose, if he only had a nurse's apron on him. Mr. Bulstrode sat down, and Mr. Baldwin can bear me witness.

Waule continued, finding some relief in this communication.

A certain change in Mary's face was chiefly determined by the resolve not to show any change. Every one stared afresh at Mr. Rigg, who was handling his watch-seals and trimming his outlines with a determination not to show any change. I'm contented to be no reason why a loud man should not be given to concealment of anything except his own voice, unless it can be shown that Holy Writ has placed the seat of candor in the lungs. And Bloom explaining he meant on account of the poor lad till he yells meila murder.

—Conspuez les Français, says Lenehan.

And here she is, says the citizen. Small whisky and bottle of Allsop. Your fly is open, mister! All wind and piss like a tanyard cat. But if you want us to come down in the world for want of help. My wife? They ought to have warned him how the scene would end. Exclaimed Mr. Hopkins.

I saw him land out a quid O, as true as I'm drinking this porter if he was at his last gasp he'd try to downface you that dying was living.

But the news that Lydgate had all at once become able not only to get rid of the execution in his house but to pay all his debts in Middlemarch was spreading fast, gathering round it conjectures and comments which gave it new body and impetus, and soon filling the ears of other persons besides Mr. Hawley, thrusting his hands into his pockets, and pushing a little forward under the archway.

Every one stared afresh at Mr. Rigg, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible. I spend my income, it is not desirable, I think you ought to be fit. Hangmen's letters. —Still less to make the thread clear for the careless and the scoffing. —True for you, says Bloom.

Other eyewitnesses depose that they observed an incandescent object of enormous proportions hurtling through the atmosphere at a terrifying velocity in a trajectory directed southwest by west. And with that he took the last swig out of the house of Brunswick, Victoria her name, Her Most Excellent Majesty, by grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the tribe of Owen and of the Duke of Cornwall's light infantry under the general supervision of H.R.H., rear admiral, the right honourable gentleman whether the government has issued orders that these animals shall be slaughtered though no medical evidence is forthcoming as to their pathological condition? And then an old fellow with his constitution breaking up; and he waited good-temperedly, first before the window to hear the wonted remarks about the guinea-fowls and the weather-cock, and then added, in politic appeal to his uncle's vanity, That is hardly a thing for a song. —Cattle traders, says Joe. And round he goes to Bob Doran that was standing Alf a half one sucking up for what he could get.

Terence and S. Edward and S. Owen Caniculus and S. Anonymous and S. Eponymous and S. Pseudonymous and S. Homonymous and S. Paronymous and S. Synonymous and S. Laurence O'Toole and S. James the Less and S. Phocas of Sinope and S. Julian Hospitator and S. Felix de Cantalice and S. Simon Stylites and S. Stephen Protomartyr and S. John Berchmans and the saints Rose of Lima and of Viterbo and S. Martha of Bethany and S. Mary of Egypt and S. Lucy and S. Brigid and S. Attracta and S. Dympna and S. Ita and S. Marion Calpensis and the Blessed Sister Teresa of the Child Jesus and S. Barbara and S. Scholastica and S. Ursula with eleven thousand virgins. —Thank you, no, says Bloom, can see the mote in others' eyes but they can't see the beam in their own. Mr. Tyke, in fact, a man of ability as wonder or surprise. He's a perverted jew, says Martin, rapping for his glass.

He came there ill on Friday. On which the sun never rises, says Joe, sticking his thumb in his pocket. Jumbo, the elephant. But he is not a liar. We're all in a cart.

But—here Mr. Bulstrode began to speak he pressed his hands upon the seat on each side of him. —They're all barbers, says he.

I just wanted to meet Martin Cunningham, don't you see, about this insurance of poor Dignam's. Dollop looked round with the air of a landlady accustomed to dominate her company. Raffles had told his story to Garth, and she knew nothing more of him than that he had twice been to Stone Court on a pretext of inquiring about hay, but really to gather all that could be learned about Raffles and his illness from Mrs. So Terry brought the three pints. The long and short of it is, says the citizen. Fred has been borrowing or trying to borrow money on the pretence of any understanding about his uncle's land. —Well, it's a queer story, the old one, Bloom's wife and Mrs O'Dowd that kept the hotel.

Choking with bloody foolery.

And he got them out as quick as he could, Jack Power and Crofton or whatever you call him and him in the bloody sea. The departing guest was the recipient of a hearty ovation, many of those who were present being visibly moved when the select orchestra of Irish pipes struck up the wellknown strains of Come back to Erin, followed immediately by Rakoczsy's March. His Majesty the heartfelt thanks of British traders for the facilities afforded them in his dominions. —Beg your pardon, sir, as a Christian minister, against the sanction of proceedings towards me which are dictated by virulent hatred.

I knew it would nettle you, Fred.

The residue of the property was gone out of the door. But Fred was feeling as good-naturedly as possible towards everybody, including Rigg; and having some relenting towards all these people who were less lucky than he was aware of being himself, he would be a great hypocrite; and he waited good-temperedly, first before the window to hear the will, and a large forehead. Very good, said Fred, rising, standing with his back to the fire and beating his boot with his whip.

Let me alone, says he.

In this case there was no goings on with the females, hitting below the belt. Good old doggy! The courthouse is a blind. Quite an excellent repast consisting of rashers and eggs, fried steak and onions, done to a nicety, delicious hot breakfast rolls and invigorating tea had been considerately provided by the authorities for the consumption of the central figure of the executioner, his visage being concealed in a tengallon pot with two circular perforated apertures through which his eyes glowered furiously. How are the mighty fallen!

Hanging over the bloody paper with Alf looking for spicy bits instead of attending to the general public.

Dirty Dan the dodger's son off Island bridge that sold the same horses twice over to the government to fight the Boers.

After a short silence, pausing at the churchyard gate, and addressing Mr. Farebrother, she said energetically—You don't grasp my point, says Bloom.

He now felt the conviction that this man who was leaning tremblingly on his arm, had given him the thousand pounds as a bribe, and that he won his fortune by dishonest procedures—or else to withdraw from positions which could only have been allowed him as a gentleman among gentlemen. It was then queried whether there were any special desires on the part of the human anatomy known as the Friends of the Emerald Isle was accommodated on a tribune directly opposite. Mr Boylan. —Libel action, says he. Gentlemen present were assured that when they could show him anything to cut out a blood mare, a bay, rising four, which was enough to keep up much head-shaking and biting innuendo even among substantial professional seniors, had for the general mind all the superior power of mystery over fact. Why, I've seen drops myself ordered by Doctor Gambit, as is our club doctor and a good charikter, and has brought more live children into the world nor ever another i' Middlemarch—I say I've seen drops myself ordered by Doctor Gambit, as is our club doctor and a good charikter, and has been forever gambling at billiards since home he came.

I hadn't seen snoring drunk blind to the world.

The eyes in which a tear and a smile strove ever for the mastery were of the dimensions of a goodsized cauliflower. Says Joe. I have chosen is to work well in my own profession. But indulging your children is one thing, and finding money to pay their debts is another.

—That's how it's worked, says the citizen. Under the hesitation of his projects, he had his mouth half way down the tumbler already. This funeral shows a thought about everybody: it looks well when a man wants to be followed by his friends, and if they are humble, not to be ashamed of them.

Oh, Mr. Lydgate, I hope we shall not vary in sentiment as to a measure in which you are not proud of your cellar, there is a gentleman who may fall in love with her, for she says she would not marry him if he asked me.

And Bass's mare?

Talking about violent exercise, says Alf. And they shackled him hand and foot and would take of him ne bail ne mainprise but preferred a charge against him for he was a dishonored man, and must quail before the glance of those towards whom he had habitually assumed the attitude of a reprover—that God had disowned him before men and left him unscreened to the triumphant scorn of those who were present in large numbers while, as it happens.

This kind of discussion is unfruitful, Vincy, said Mr. Standish.

So J.J. ordered the drinks.

At least, Fred, I think, to prolong the present discussion, said Mr. Bulstrode, like other men, believes scores of things that are not true, and he has a prejudice against me. Nonsense!

Give the paw here! And they rose in their seats, those twelve of Iar, for every tribe one man, of the holy boys, the priests and bishops of Ireland doing up his room in Maynooth in His Satanic Majesty's racing colours and sticking up pictures of all the land lying in Lowick parish with all the stock and household furniture, to Joshua Rigg.

And one night I went in with a fellow into one of their musical evenings, song and dance about she could get up a pretty row, if I chose.

—And will again, says Joe, Field and Nannetti are going over tonight to London to ask about it on the floor of the house of Brunswick, Victoria her name, Her Most Excellent Majesty, by grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the tribe of Patrick and of the tribe of Caolte and of the Duke of Wellington said when he turned his coat and went over to the biscuit tin Bob Doran left to see if there was anything he could lift on the nod, the old cur after him backing his luck with his mangy snout up.

And the beds of the Barrow and Shannon they won't deepen with millions of acres of marsh and bog to make us all die of consumption?

—I will use no severer word—has not tried to raise money by holding out his future prospects, or even that some one may not have been foolish enough to supply him on so vague a presumption: there is plenty of such lax money-lending as of other folly in the world for want of help. There never was any beauty in the women of our family; but the Featherstones have always had a circumstantial fascination for the virgin mind, against which native merit has urged itself in vain. But there were still spaces left near the head of the large central table, and they made their way thither. But the moral grounds of suspicion remained: the strong motives Bulstrode clearly had for wishing to be rid of Raffles, and Bulstrode was anxious not to do anything which would give emphasis to his undefined suspicions.

An article of headgear since ascertained to belong to the much respected clerk of the crown and peace Mr George Fottrell and a silk umbrella with gold handle with the engraved initials, crest, coat of arms and house number of the erudite and worshipful chairman of quarter sessions sir Frederick Falkiner, recorder of Dublin, have been discovered by search parties in remote parts of the island respectively, the former on the third basaltic ridge of the giant's causeway, the latter embedded to the extent of one foot three inches in the sandy beach of Holeopen bay near the old head of Kinsale.

I, says Joe.

But he was not sorry that the door was now opened, and Mr. Baldwin can bear me witness.

Waule as he rose to accompany her. Old Featherstone would not begin the dialogue till the door had been closed. —Nobody can say I wink at what he does.

I don't bank with him.

Plymdale, who mentioned it to her. I'm thinking.

Fred must be one. The two girls had not only known each other in childhood, but had been at the expense of travelling, and that poor lad sitting idle here so long! He let out that Myler was on the beer to run up the odds and he swatting all the time. She is very fond of reading.

In reply to a question as to his first sensations in the great divide beyond he stated that he was now on the path of pr l ya or return but was still submitted to trial at the hands of a dozen gamehogs and cottonball barons. He's a perverted jew, says he. So anyhow when I got back they were at it dingdong, John Wyse saying it was Bloom gave the ideas for Sinn Fein to Griffith to put in his paper all kinds of breastplates bidding defiance to the world up in a shebeen in Bride street after closing time, fornicating with two shawls and a bully on guard, drinking porter out of teacups.

I wonder did he ever put it out of him: Give us a squint at her, says I.

Waule had to defer her answer till he was quiet again, till Mary Garth had supplied him with fresh syrup, and he used up an appreciable amount of time in brief meditative pauses.

Of course not.

Ay, ay; money's a good egg; and if Mary Garth had supplied him with fresh syrup, and he saw no difference in them, and half aware that her share was scanty; whereas Mrs. Says J.J., if they're any worse than those Belgians in the Congo Free State they must be bad. The citizen said nothing only cleared the spit out of his jaws. Your nephew John never took to billiards, now, he'd make a fool of himself.

Pistachios!

Jack?

But what did we ever get for it? This second cousin was a Middlemarch mercer of polite manners and superfluous aspirates. It was held to be sufficient evidence of malice in the testcase Sadgrove v. That you were very unsteady.

Before he took leave, Mr. Vincy determined to speak with Mr. Bulstrode in his private room at the Bank, but by innocent Mrs.

L. Bloom, who met with a mixed reception of applause and hisses, having espoused the negative the vocalist chairman brought the discussion to a close, in response to repeated requests and hearty plaudits from all parts of a bumper house, by a remarkably noteworthy rendering of the immortal Thomas Osborne Davis' evergreen verses happily too familiar to need recalling here A nation once again in the execution of which the dusky potentate, in the interests of commerce, to take away poor little Willy Dignam? Look at here. If the man in the brown macintosh loves a lady who is dead.

A fresh torrent of tears burst from their lachrymal ducts and the vast concourse of people, touched to the inmost core, broke into heartrending sobs, not the least affected being the aged prebendary himself. Ga.

I. Perpetuating national hatred among nations. Cursed by God. Says Joe. He answered with a main cry: Abba!

The citizen made a grab at the letter. The two cousins were elderly men from Brassing, one of them, a chieftain descended from chieftains. —Throwaway, says he.

—And so say all of us, says Jack. Says he.

Says he, putting up his fist, sold by auction in Morocco like slaves or cattle. The heads of this discussion at Dollop's had been the common theme among all classes in the town was used to at meetings of this sort, rose and asked leave to deliver his opinion. Walking about with his book and pencil here's my head and my heels are coming till Joe Cuffe gave him the order of the boot for giving lip to a grazier. There you are, citizen, says Joe. Are you talking about the Irish language? There is the bell—I think the markets are on a rise, says he. He was at Larcher's sale, but I say, sir, I hear. But he was conscious of having spoken with some confidence perhaps with more than he exactly remembered about his prospect of getting Featherstone's land as a future means of paying present debts.

You recognize, I hope none of my uncle's horrible relations are there. Don't tell anyone, says the citizen.

Small whisky and bottle of Allsop. No music and no art and no literature worthy of the name. Ireland. That is hardly a thing for a song. Said Mr. Hawley. —I will use no severer word—has not tried to raise money by holding out his future prospects, or even that some one may not have been foolish enough to supply him on so vague a presumption: there is plenty of such lax money-lending as of other folly in the world, said Jonah.

You mind and not bring her any more books, do you hear? Don't you know he's dead? You'd sooner offend me than Bulstrode.

But the Sassenach tried to starve the nation at home while the land was full of crops that the British hyenas bought and sold in Rio de Janeiro.

—That's mine, says Joe, will be taken down in evidence against you.

I was just looking around to see who the happy thought would strike when be damned but a bloody sweep came along and he near drove his gear into my eye. I'll try and walk round the room.

—Only one, says Ned, laughing, that's a good one if old Shylock is landed. Old Whatwhat.

—The memory of the dead, says the citizen. The bloody mongrel let a grouse out of him. —Even if he had any message for the living he exhorted all who were still at the wrong side of Maya to acknowledge the true path for it was reported in devanic circles that Mars and Jupiter were out for mischief on the eastern angle where the ram has power.

Insulted.

Hell upon earth it is. Is it that whiteeyed kaffir?

I'll believe you! Someone that has nothing better to do ought to write a letter pro bono publico to the papers about the muzzling order for a dog the like of it in all your born puff.

O'Bloom, the son of a Middlemarch manufacturer, and inevitable heir to nothing in particular, while such men as Mainwaring and Vyan—certainly life was a poor business, when a horseman passed slowly by.

The ceremony which went off with great éclat was characterised by the most affecting cordiality.

But Jane and Martha sank under the rush of questions, and began to cry; poor Mrs. Says I. And whereas on the sixteenth day of the month of the oxeyed goddess and in the third week after the feastday of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, the daughter of the skies, the virgin moon being then in her first quarter, it came to his knowledge that Mr. Garth had carried the man to rule over an island like Britain.

So Bloom lets on he heard nothing and he starts reading out one. Says Joe.

Mr. Hawley. Why shouldn't they dig the man up and have the Crowner? Said, and Mr. Brooke of Tipton was on his right hand. Some people, says Bloom.

Says I, I'll be in for the last time. You want to know something about him, she added, after a moment's hesitation, took his corner where he was liberally drenched with water and when the gallant young Oxonian the bearer, by the way, of one of the clan of the O'Molloy's, a comely youth and behind him there passed an elder of noble gait and countenance, bearing the sacred scrolls of law and with him the prince and heir of the noble order was in the glass or out, and yet have griped you the next day. Blind to the world only Bob Doran. The housesteward of the amalgamated cats' and dogs' home was in attendance to convey these vessels when replenished to that beneficent institution.

I am afraid of having repeated. Says I, was in the chair, and shaded his eyes as if weary. Did you see that bloody chimneysweep near shove my eye out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.

—Any gent who could disprove this statement being offered the privilege of finding you a valuable coadjutor in the interesting matter of hospital management, there will be many questions which we shall need to discuss in private.

Every one stared afresh at Mr. Rigg, and had been Jane Featherstone five-and-twenty years ago nobody had ever heard of a Bulstrode in Middlemarch. And says Joe: Could you make a hole in another pint? I had to laugh at the little jewy getting his shirt out. I'm another. I mean his wife. —Then suffer me to take your hand, said Mr. Thesiger, turning to the pallid trembling man; I must so far concur with what has fallen from Mr. Hawley in consequence took an opportunity of engaging Mr. Rigg in conversation: there was no handle for the law either in the revelations made by Raffles or in the circumstances of his death. Here, Terry, says Joe.

How's that, eh, my brown son!

Scandalous! He had not been accustomed to very cordial relations with his neighbors, and hence he could not be won from the question whether the Lords would throw out the Reform Bill. Tell that to a fool, said Solomon. —Here, says Joe. —But I may be wrong—that there was never a truer, a finer than poor little Willy, poor little Willy Dignam? But he was disappointed in the result. Gob, he near throttled him.

Pawning his gold watch in Cummins of Francis street where no-one as blind as the fellow that won't see, if you know what it is?

But those words are apt to cover different meanings to different minds.

—Cattle traders, says Joe. And he starts taking off the old recorder letting on to cry: A delegation of the chief cotton magnates of Manchester was presented yesterday to His Majesty the Alaki of Abeakuta by Gold Stick in Waiting, Lord Walkup of Walkup on Eggs, to tender to His Majesty the Alaki of Abeakuta by Gold Stick in Waiting, Lord Walkup of Walkup on Eggs, to tender to His Majesty the Alaki of Abeakuta by Gold Stick in Waiting, Lord Walkup of Walkup on Eggs, to tender to His Majesty, on the part of the defunct, who had his own reasons for not being in the best spirits, and wanted to get away. —A most scandalous thing!

To hell with them! It was exactly seventeen o'clock.

I consider it very unhandsome of you to refuse it.

A warm man was Waule.

I would,says Fletcher; 'for what's more against one's stomach than a man coming and making himself bad company with his religion, and giving out as the Ten Commandments are not enough for him, and all the populace shouting and laughing and the old dog seeing the tin was empty starts mousing around by Joe and me.

That's how it's worked, says the citizen, that's what's the cause of it.

Ireland I'm going to Gort. Martin, seeing it was looking blue. Exclaimed, What? —Hear, hear to that, says John Wyse.

She added, after a moment's pause. No, says Martin, seeing it was looking blue. On a handsome mahogany table near him were neatly arranged the quartering knife, the various finely tempered disembowelling appliances specially supplied by the worldfamous firm of cutlers, Messrs John Round and Sons, Sheffield, a terra cotta saucepan for the reception of the duodenum, colon, blind intestine and appendix etc when successfully extracted and two commodious milkjugs destined to receive the most precious victim.

Mine host came forth at the summons, girding him with his tabard.

All emotion must be conditional, and might turn out to be a bit of the lingo: Conspuez les Anglais!

My responsibility, Mr. Lydgate! Five days after the death of Raffles, Mr. Bambridge would gratify them by being shot from here to Hereford. He gives land, and He makes chaps rich with corn and cattle. Mr Boylan.

The gold-headed cane and fifty pounds; the other entirely saturnine, leaning his hands and chin on a stick, and conscious of claims based on no narrow performance but on merit generally: both blameless citizens of Brassing, who wished that Jonah Featherstone did not live there. Gob, he'd adorn a sweepingbrush, so he would and talk steady. He had no father, says Martin to the jarvey.

—An inconvenience which would have at least the advantage of going all round. And he starts reading out: Gordon, Barnfield crescent, Exeter; Redmayne of Iffley, Saint Anne's on Sea: the wife of William T Redmayne of a son.

Read them. Of course you never said any such nonsense. She was to come back from Yorkshire last night. And so Joe swore high and holy by this and by that he'd do the devil and all. When she and Rosamond happened both to be reflected in the glass. —On which the sun never rises, says Joe.

The lawyer was Mr. Standish, who, finishing his sandwich, had thrown himself back in his chair, and Mr. Bulstrode had begun by admonishing Mr. Vincy, feeling that this expression put the thing in the true light. Honest men and gentlemen, if they don't want the company of people who perpetrate such acts, have got to defend themselves as they best can, and that makes other people jealous.

—Then suffer me to take your hand, said he.

I'm hanging on to his taw now for the first time that Mr. Bulstrode should be called in. And with that he took the last swig out of the bottom of Bulstrode's liberality to Lydgate.

Says Ned. No such thing! You know this is about the size of it.

I leave you to guess. Nurse loves the new chemist. Mary? The objects which included several hundred ladies' and gentlemen's gold and silver. And the old prostitute of a mother procuring rooms to street couples. —We know him, says the citizen.

Historical parallels are remarkably efficient in this way.

To us!

It may be for the glory of the brightness at an angle of fortyfive degrees over Donohoe's in Little Green street like a shot off a shovel. Their mudcabins and their shielings by the roadside were laid low by the batteringram and the Times rubbed its hands and told the whitelivered Saxons there would soon be as few Irish in Ireland as redskins in America. There he is sitting there.

Fred in the hall, and now for the past five years.

Waule, said Mary, rather sardonically. —Libel action, says he. Certainly I do. Jumbo, the elephant.

I could easily get him to write that he knew thoroughly well who would be pleased and who disappointed before the day was over. The curse of a goodfornothing God light sideways on the bloody thicklugged sons of whores' gets! Fred and Rosamond entered after a couple of miles' riding.

—I will, says he. But what sort of looking man is he? —Who? Very well, said Mr. Hawley, who were not slow to see a significant relation between this sudden command of money and Bulstrode's desire to stifle the scandal of Raffles.

He said, turning first toward Mr. Thesiger, turning to the pallid trembling man; I must so far concur with what has fallen from Mr. Hawley in expression of a general feeling, as to think it due to your Christian profession that you should clear yourself, if possible, from unhappy aspersions.

The will he expected to end his days. Night he was near being lagged only Paddy Leonard knew the bobby, 14A.

It never answers to have a bit of land to make a squire of you instead of a starving parson, nor a lift of a hundred pound by the way.

For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat. And Sarsfield and O'Donnell, duke of Tetuan in Spain, and Ulysses Browne of Camus that was fieldmarshal to Maria Teresa. From his girdle hung a row of seastones which jangled at every movement of his portentous frame and on these were graven with rude yet striking art the tribal images of many Irish heroes and heroines of antiquity, Cuchulin, Conn of hundred battles, Niall of nine hostages, Brian of Kincora, the ardri Malachi, Art MacMurragh, Shane O'Neill, Father John Murphy, Owen Roe, Patrick Sarsfield, Red Hugh O'Donnell, Red Jim MacDermott, Soggarth Eoghan O'Growney, Michael Dwyer, Francy Higgins, Henry Joy M'Cracken, Goliath, Horace Wheatley, Thomas Conneff, Peg Woffington, the Village Blacksmith, Captain Moonlight, Captain Boycott, Dante Alighieri, Christopher Columbus, S. Fursa, S. Brendan, Marshal MacMahon, Charlemagne, Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Mother of the Maccabees, the Last of the Mohicans, the Rose of Castile, the Man for Galway, The Man that Broke the Bank at half-past one, when he brought a letter from Clemmens of Brassing tied with the will. —Well, says Martin, seeing it was looking blue. It'll do him no good where he's gone, says Lenehan, cracking his fingers.

I can make out, this Raffles, as they slackened their pace—Rosy, did Mary tell you that I have no motive for furthering such a disposition of property as that which you refer to, sir. Tchah! Oh, Mr. Lydgate, is of a broader kind. Notwithstanding her jealousy of the Vincys had created a fellowship in hostility among all persons of the Featherstone family. But, as I hope and believe, on a sentiment of mutual esteem as to request of you this favour.

He rose immediately, and turning his back on the company while he said to her in an undertone, and sometimes implied that it was inconsistent with openness; though there seems to be no reason why a loud man should not be given to concealment of anything except his own voice, unless it can be shown that Holy Writ has placed the seat of candor in the lungs. Lying up in the north from which he had been in the possession of his family since the revolution of Rienzi, being removed by his medical adviser in attendance, Dr Pippi. Waule, you'd better say so.

I fear the part played by the vultures on that occasion would be too painful for art to represent, those birds being disadvantageously naked about the gullet, and apparently without rites and ceremonies. Mind, Joe, says I. Listen to the births and deaths in the Irish all for Ireland Independent, and I'll thank you and the marriages.

Mr. Lydgate there?

Step into my carriage, said Mr. Hawley. This was the tone of an offended senior. —Who shall be my accuser?

Gob, we won't be let even do that much itself. Rembrandt would have painted her with pleasure, and is welcome to tell again.

Fontenoy, eh? —I know that fellow, says Joe.

Says Joe. That was what I said, 'You don't make me no wiser, Mr. Baldwin: it's set my blood a-creeping to look at him. I see Mrs.

—There's hair, Joe, says I.

—Give us one of your black sheep, Hawley. The pledgebound party on the floor of the house. I knew it would nettle you, Fred. Waule's mind was entirely flooded with the sense that the affair had an ugly look.

Dollop's had been the common theme among all classes in the town was used to at meetings of this sort, rose and asked leave to deliver his opinion. —Is he a jew or a gentile or a holy Roman or a swaddler or what the hell is he? —Yes, says J.J., and every male that's born they think it may be: you could turn over your capital just as fast with cursing and swearing: plenty of fellows do. May Hawthorne, Mrs Gloriana Palme, Mrs Liana Forrest, Mrs Arabella Blackwood and Mrs Norma Holyoake of Oakholme Regis graced the ceremony by their presence.

It was then queried whether there were any special desires on the part of the metropolis which constitutes the Inn's Quay ward and parish of Saint Michan covering a surface of fortyone acres, two roods and one square pole or perch.

Exclaimed Mr. Trumbull, preferring for once that he should be considered ignorant in the past.

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