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14:317;0167['  ]| This meanwhile this good sister stood by$4$ the door and begged them at
14:317;0168['  ]| the reverence of Jesu our alther liege Lord to$9$ leave their wassailing for$3$ there
14:317;0169['  ]| was above one quick with child, a gentle dame, whose time hied fast. Sir*Leopold 
14:318;0170['  ]| heard on$4$ the upfloor cry on$4$ high and he wondered what cry that$6#1$ it
14:318;0171['  ]| was whether of child or woman 
14:318;0171[C  ]| and I marvel, 
14:318;0171['  ]| said he, 
14:318;0171[C  ]| that$3$ it be not come or
14:318;0172[C  ]| now. Meseems it dureth overlong. 
14:318;0172['  ]| And he was ware and saw a franklin that$6#1$
14:318;0173['  ]| hight Lenehan on$4$ that$6#2$ side the table that$6#1$ was older than any of the tother
14:318;0174['  ]| and for$3$ that$3$ they both were knights virtuous in$4$ the one emprise and eke by$4$
14:318;0175['  ]| cause that$3$ he was elder he spoke to$4$ him full gently. 
14:318;0175[C  ]| But, 
14:318;0175['  ]| said he, 
14:318;0175[C  ]| or it be
14:318;0176[C  ]| long too she will$1$ bring forth by$4$ God His bounty and have joy of her
14:318;0177[C  ]| childing for$3$ she hath waited marvellous long. 
14:318;0177['  ]| And the franklin that$6#1$ had
14:318;0178['  ]| drunken said, 
14:318;0178[ZD ]| Expecting each moment to$9$ be her next. 
14:318;0178['  ]| Also he took the cup
14:318;0179['  ]| that$6#1$ stood tofore him for$3$ him needed never none asking nor desiring of him
14:318;0180['  ]| to$9$ drink and, 
14:318;0180[ZD ]| Now drink, 
14:318;0180['  ]| said he, fully delectably, and he quaffed as far as
14:318;0181['  ]| he might to$4$ their both's health for$3$ he was a passing good man of his
14:318;0182['  ]| lustiness. And sir*Leopold that$6#1$ was the goodliest guest that$6#1$ ever sat in$4$
14:318;0183['  ]| scholars' hall and that$6#2$ was the meekest man and the kindest that$6#1$ ever laid
14:318;0184['  ]| husbandly hand under hen and that$6#2$ was the very truest knight of the world
14:318;0185['  ]| one that$6#1$ ever did minion service to$4$ lady gentle pledged him courtly in$4$ the
14:318;0186['  ]| cup. Woman's woe with wonder pondering.
14:318;0187['  ]| Now let us speak of that$6#2$ fellowship that$6#1$ was there to$4$ the intent to$9$ be
14:318;0188['  ]| drunken an they might. There was a sort of scholars along either side the
14:318;0189['  ]| board, that$6#1$ is to$9$ wit, Dixon yclept junior of saint*Mary*Merciable's with
14:318;0190['  ]| other his fellows Lynch and Madden, scholars of medicine, and the franklin
14:318;0191['  ]| that$6#1$ hight Lenehan and one from Alba*Longa, one Crotthers, and young
14:318;0192['  ]| Stephen that$6#1$ had mien of a frere that$6#1$ was at head of the board and Costello
14:318;0193['  ]| that$6#1$ men clepen Punch*Costello all long of a mastery of him erewhile gested
14:318;0194['  ]| (and of all them, reserved young Stephen, he was the most drunken that$6#1$
14:318;0195['  ]| demanded still of more mead) and beside the meek sir*Leopold. But on$4$
14:318;0196['  ]| young Malachi they waited for$3$ that$3$ he promised to$9$ have come and such as
14:318;0197['  ]| intended to$4$ no$2$ goodness said how he had broke his avow. And sir*Leopold
14:318;0198['  ]| sat with them for$3$ he bore fast friendship to$4$ sir*Simon and to$4$ this his son
14:318;0199['  ]| young Stephen and for$4$ that$6#2$ his languor becalmed him there after longest
14:318;0200['  ]| wanderings insomuch as they feasted him for$4$ that$6#2$ time in$4$ the honourablest
14:318;0201['  ]| manner. Ruth red him, love led on$5$ with will$0$ to$9$ wander, loth to$9$ leave.
14:318;0202['  ]| For$3$ they were right witty scholars. And he heard their aresouns each
14:318;0203['  ]| gen other as touching birth and righteousness, young Madden maintaining
14:318;0204['  ]| that$3$ 
14:318;0204[X  ]| put such case it were hard the wife to$9$ die (for$3$ so$5#2$ it had fallen out a
14:318;0205[X  ]| matter of some year agone with a woman of Eblana in$4$ Horne's house that$6#1$
14:318;0206[X  ]| now was trespassed out of this world and the self night next before her
14:318;0207[X  ]| death all leeches and pothecaries had taken counsel of her case). 
14:318;0207['  ]| And they
14:318;0208['  ]| said farther 
14:318;0208[X  ]| she should live because in$4$ the beginning, 
14:318;0208['  ]| they said, 
14:318;0208[X  ]| the woman
14:318;0209[X  ]| should bring forth in$4$ pain 
14:318;0209['  ]| and wherefore they that$6#1$ were of this imagination
14:318;0210['  ]| affirmed 
14:318;0210[X  ]| how young Madden had said truth for$3$ he had conscience to$9$ let her
14:318;0211[X  ]| die. 
14:318;0211['  ]| And not few and of these was young Lynch were in$4$ doubt that$3$ the
14:318;0212['  ]| world was now right evil governed as it was never other howbeit the mean
14:318;0213['  ]| people believed it otherwise but the law nor his judges did provide no$2$
14:318;0214['  ]| remedy. A redress God grant. This was scant said but all cried with one
14:319;0215['  ]| acclaim 
14:319;0215[X  ]| nay, by$4$ our Virgin*Mother, the wife should live and the babe to$9$ die.
14:319;0216['  ]| In$4$ colour whereof they waxed hot upon$4$ that$6#2$ head what with argument and
14:319;0217['  ]| what for$4$ their drinking but the franklin Lenehan was prompt each when to$9$
14:319;0218['  ]| pour them ale so$3$ that$3$ at the least way mirth might not lack. Then young
14:319;0219['  ]| Madden showed all the whole affair and said 
14:319;0219[X  ]| how that$3$ she was dead and
14:319;0220[X  ]| how for$4$ holy religion sake by$4$ rede of palmer and bedesman and for$4$ a vow
14:319;0221[X  ]| he had made to$4$ Saint*Ultan of Arbraccan her goodman husband would not
14:319;0222[X  ]| let her death 
14:319;0222['  ]| whereby they were all wondrous grieved. To$4$ whom young
14:319;0223['  ]| Stephen had these words following: 
14:319;0223[B  ]| Murmur, sirs, is eke oft among lay folk.
14:319;0224[B  ]| Both babe and parent now glorify their Maker, the one in$4$ limbo gloom, the
14:319;0225[B  ]| other in$4$ purgefire. But, gramercy, what of those Godpossibled souls that$6#1$ we
14:319;0226[B  ]| nightly impossibilise, which$6#1$ is the sin against the Holy Ghost, Very God,
14:319;0227[B  ]| Lord and Giver of Life? For$3$, sirs, 
14:319;0227['  ]| he said, 
14:319;0227[B  ]| our lust is brief. We are means to$4$
14:319;0228[B  ]| those small creatures within us and nature has other ends than we. 
14:319;0228['  ]| Then
14:319;0229['  ]| said Dixon junior to$4$ Punch*Costello 
14:319;0229[X  ]| wist he what ends. 
14:319;0229['  ]| But he had
14:319;0230['  ]| overmuch drunken and the best word he could have of him was that$3$ 
14:319;0230[X  ]| he
14:319;0231[X  ]| would ever dishonest a woman whoso she were or wife or maid or leman if
14:319;0232[X  ]| it so$5#1$ fortuned him to$9$ be delivered of his spleen of lustihead. 
14:319;0232['  ]| Whereat
14:319;0233['  ]| Crotthers of Alba*Longa sang young Malachi's praise of that$6#2$ beast the
14:319;0234['  ]| unicorn how once in$4$ the millennium he cometh by$4$ his horn, the other all
14:319;0235['  ]| this while, pricked forward with their jibes wherewith they did malice him,
14:319;0236['  ]| witnessing all and several by$4$ saint*Foutinus his engines that$3$ he was able to$9$
14:319;0237['  ]| do any manner of thing that$6#1$ lay in$4$ man to$9$ do. 
14:319;0237['  ]| Thereat laughed they all
14:319;0238['  ]| right jocundly only young Stephen and sir*Leopold which$6#1$ never durst laugh
14:319;0239['  ]| too open by$4$ reason of a strange humour which$6#1$ he would not bewray and
14:319;0240['  ]| also for$3$ that$3$ he rued for$4$ her that$6#1$ bare whoso she might be or wheresoever.
14:319;0241['  ]| Then spake young Stephen orgulous of mother Church that$6#1$ would cast him
14:319;0242['  ]| out of her bosom, of law of canons, of Lilith, patron of abortions, of bigness
14:319;0243['  ]| wrought by$4$ wind of seeds of brightness or by$4$ potency of vampires mouth to$4$
14:319;0244['  ]| mouth or, as Virgilius saith, by$4$ the influence of the occident or by$4$ the reek
14:319;0245['  ]| of moonflower or an she lie with a woman which$6#1$ her man has but lain with,
14:319;0246['  ]| \effectu secuto\, or peradventure in$4$ her bath according to$4$ the opinions of
14:319;0247['  ]| Averroes and Moses*Maimonides. He said also how 
14:319;0247[X  ]| at the end of the second
14:319;0248[X  ]| month a human soul was infused and how in$4$ all our holy mother foldeth
14:319;0249[X  ]| ever souls for$4$ God's greater glory whereas that$6#2$ earthly mother which$6#1$ was
14:319;0250[X  ]| but a dam to$9$ bear beastly should die by$4$ canon for$3$ so$5#2$ saith he that$6#1$ holdeth
14:319;0251[X  ]| the fisherman's seal, even that$6#2$ blessed Peter on$4$ which$6#1$ rock was holy church
14:319;0252[X  ]| for$4$ all ages founded. 
14:319;0252['  ]| All they bachelors then asked of sir*Leopold would he
14:319;0253['  ]| in$4$ like$2$ case so$5#2$ jeopard her person as risk life to$9$ save life. A wariness of mind
14:319;0254['  ]| he would answer as fitted all and, laying hand to$4$ jaw, he said dissembling,
14:319;0255['  ]| as his wont was, that$3$ 
14:319;0255[X  ]| as it was informed him, who$6#1$ had ever loved the art of
14:319;0256[X  ]| physic as might a layman, and agreeing also with his experience of so$5#1$
14:319;0257[X  ]| seldomseen an accident it was good for$4$ that$6#2$ mother Church belike at one
14:319;0258[X  ]| blow had birth and death pence 
14:319;0258['  ]| and in$4$ such sort deliverly he scaped their
14:319;0259['  ]| questions. 
14:319;0259[V  ]| That$6#2$ is truth, pardy, 
14:319;0259['  ]| said Dixon, 
14:319;0259[V  ]| and, or I err, a pregnant word.
14:320;0260['  ]| Which$6#1$ hearing young Stephen was a marvellous glad man and he averred
14:320;0261['  ]| that$3$ 
14:320;0261[X  ]| he who$6#1$ stealeth from the poor lendeth to$4$ the Lord 
14:320;0261['  ]| for$3$ he was of a wild
14:320;0262['  ]| manner when he was drunken and that$3$ he was now in$4$ that$6#2$ taking it
14:320;0263['  ]| appeared eftsoons.
14:320;0264['  ]| But sir*Leopold was passing grave maugre his word by$4$ cause he still
14:320;0265['  ]| had pity of the terrorcausing shrieking of shrill women in$4$ their labour and
14:320;0266['  ]| as he was minded of his good lady*Marion that$6#1$ had borne him an only
14:320;0267['  ]| manchild which$6#1$ on$4$ his eleventh day on$4$ live had died and no$2$ man of art
14:320;0268['  ]| could save so$5#1$ dark is destiny. And she was wondrous stricken of heart for$4$
14:320;0269['  ]| that$6#2$ evil hap and for$4$ his burial did him on$5$ a fair corselet of lamb's wool, the
14:320;0270['  ]| flower of the flock, lest he might perish utterly and lie akeled (for$3$ it was
14:320;0271['  ]| then about the midst of the winter) and now sir*Leopold that$6#1$ had of his
14:320;0272['  ]| body no$2$ manchild for$4$ an heir looked upon$4$ him his friend's son and was
14:320;0273['  ]| shut up$5$ in$4$ sorrow for$4$ his forepassed happiness and as sad as he was that$3$
14:320;0274['  ]| him failed a son of such gentle courage (for$3$ all accounted him of real parts)
14:320;0275['  ]| so$5#1$ grieved he also in$4$ no$2$ less measure for$4$ young Stephen for$3$ that$3$ he lived
14:320;0276['  ]| riotously with those wastrels and murdered his goods with whores.
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14:323;0429['  ]| But was young Boasthard's fear vanquished by$4$ Calmer's words? No$7$,
14:323;0430['  ]| for$3$ he had in$4$ his bosom a spike named Bitterness which$6#1$ could not by$4$ words
14:323;0431['  ]| be done away. And was he then neither calm like$4$ the one nor godly like$4$ the
14:323;0432['  ]| other? He was neither as much as he would have liked to$9$ be either. But
14:323;0433['  ]| could he not have endeavoured to$9$ have found again as in$4$ his youth the
14:323;0434['  ]| bottle Holiness that$6#1$ then he lived withal? Indeed no$7$ for$3$ Grace was not there
14:323;0435['  ]| to$9$ find that$6#2$ bottle. Heard he then in$4$ that$6#2$ clap the voice of the god
14:323;0436['  ]| Bringforth or, what Calmer said, a hubbub of Phenomenon? Heard? Why,
14:323;0437['  ]| he could not but hear unless he had plugged him up$4$ the tube Understanding
14:323;0438['  ]| (which$6#1$ he had not done). For$3$ through that$6#2$ tube he saw that$3$ he was in$4$ the
14:323;0439['  ]| land of Phenomenon where he must for$4$ a certain one day die as he was like$4$
14:324;0440['  ]| the rest too a passing show. And would he not accept to$9$ die like$4$ the rest and
14:324;0441['  ]| pass away? By$4$ no$2$ means would he though he must nor would he make
14:324;0442['  ]| more shows according as men do with wives which$6#1$ Phenomenon has
14:324;0443['  ]| commanded them to$9$ do by$4$ the book Law. Then wotted he nought of that$6#2$
14:324;0444['  ]| other land which$6#1$ is called Believe-on-Me, that$6#2$ is the land of promise which$6#1$
14:324;0445['  ]| behoves to$4$ the king Delightful and shall be for*ever where there is no$2$ death
14:324;0446['  ]| and no$2$ birth neither wiving nor mothering at which$6#1$ all shall come as many
14:324;0447['  ]| as believe on$4$ it? Yes, Pious had told him of that$6#2$ land and Chaste had
14:324;0448['  ]| pointed him to$4$ the way but the reason was that$3$ in$4$ the way he fell in$5$ with a
14:324;0449['  ]| certain whore of an eyepleasing exterior whose name, she said, is
14:324;0450['  ]| Bird-in-the-Hand and she beguiled him wrongways from the true path by$4$
14:324;0451['  ]| her flatteries that$6#1$ she said to$4$ him as, 
14:324;0451[Z  ]| Ho, you pretty man, turn aside hither
14:324;0452[Z  ]| and I will$1$ show you a brave place, 
14:324;0452['  ]| and she lay at him so$5#1$ flatteringly that$3$ she
14:324;0453['  ]| had him in$4$ her grot which$6#1$ is named Two-in-the-Bush or, by$4$ some learned,
14:324;0454['  ]| Carnal Concupiscence.
14:324;0455['  ]| This was it what all that$6#2$ company that$6#1$ sat there at commons in$4$ Manse
14:324;0456['  ]| of Mothers the most lusted after and if they met with this whore
14:324;0457['  ]| Bird-in-the-Hand (which$6#1$ was within all foul plagues, monsters and a
14:324;0458['  ]| wicked devil) they would strain the last but they would make at her and
14:324;0459['  ]| know her. For$3$ regarding Believe-on-Me they said it was nought else but
14:324;0460['  ]| notion and they could conceive no$2$ thought of it for$3$, first, Two-in-the-Bush
14:324;0461['  ]| whither she ticed them was the very goodliest grot and in$4$ it were four
14:324;0462['  ]| pillows on$4$ which$6#1$ were four tickets with these words printed on$4$ them,
14:324;0463['  ]| Pickaback and Topsyturvy and Shameface and Cheek*by*Jowl and, second,
14:324;0464['  ]| for$4$ that$6#2$ foul plague Allpox and the monsters they cared not for$4$ them for$3$
14:324;0465['  ]| Preservative had given them a stout shield of oxengut and, third, that$3$ they
14:324;0466['  ]| might take no$2$ hurt neither from Offspring that$6#1$ was that$6#2$ wicked devil by$4$
14:324;0467['  ]| virtue of this same shield which$6#1$ was named Killchild. So$5#2$ were they all in$4$
14:324;0468['  ]| their blind fancy, Mr*Cavil and Mr*Sometimes*Godly, Mr*Ape*Swillale, Mr*False*Franklin, 
14:324;0469['  ]| Mr*Dainty*Dixon, Young*Boasthard and Mr*Cautious*Calmer. 
14:324;0470['  ]| Wherein, O wretched company, were ye all deceived for$3$ that$6#2$ was
14:324;0471['  ]| the voice of the god that$6#1$ was in$4$ a very grievous rage that$6#1$ he would presently
14:324;0472['  ]| lift his arm up$5$ and spill their souls for$4$ their abuses and their spillings done
14:324;0473['  ]| by$4$ them contrariwise to$4$ his word which$6#1$ forth to$9$ bring brenningly biddeth.
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14:335;0942['  ]| The news was imparted with a circumspection recalling the
14:335;0943['  ]| ceremonial usage of the Sublime Porte by$4$ the second female infirmarian to$4$
14:335;0944['  ]| the junior medical officer in$4$ residence, who$6#1$ in$4$ his turn announced to$4$ the
14:335;0945['  ]| delegation that$3$ an heir had been born. When he had betaken himself to$4$ the
14:335;0946['  ]| women's apartment to$9$ assist at the prescribed ceremony of the afterbirth in$4$
14:335;0947['  ]| the presence of the secretary of state for$4$ domestic affairs and the members
14:335;0948['  ]| of the privy council, silent in$4$ unanimous exhaustion and approbation the
14:335;0949['  ]| delegates, chafing under the length and solemnity of their vigil and hoping
14:335;0950['  ]| that$3$ the joyful occurrence would palliate a licence which$6#1$ the simultaneous
14:335;0951['  ]| absence of abigail and obstetrician rendered the easier, broke out at once
14:335;0952['  ]| into a strife of tongues. In$4$ vain the voice of Mr*Canvasser*Bloom was heard
14:335;0953['  ]| endeavouring to$9$ urge, to$9$ mollify, to$9$ refrain. The moment was too propitious
14:335;0954['  ]| for$4$ the display of that$6#2$ discursiveness which$6#1$ seemed the only bond of union
14:335;0955['  ]| among tempers so$5#1$ divergent. Every phase of the situation was successively
14:335;0956['  ]| eviscerated: the prenatal repugnance of uterine brothers, the Caesarean
14:335;0957['  ]| section, posthumity with respect to$4$ the father and, that$6#2$ rarer form, with
14:335;0958['  ]| respect to$4$ the mother, the fratricidal case known as the Childs Murder and
14:335;0959['  ]| rendered memorable by$4$ the impassioned plea of Mr*Advocate*Bushe which$6#1$
14:335;0960['  ]| secured the acquittal of the wrongfully accused, the rights of primogeniture
14:335;0961['  ]| and king's bounty touching twins and triplets, miscarriages and
14:335;0962['  ]| infanticides, simulated or dissimulated, the acardiac \7foetus\ \7in 7foetu\ and
14:335;0963['  ]| aprosopia due to$4$ a congestion, the agnathia of certain chinless Chinamen
14:335;0964['  ]| (cited by$4$ Mr*Candidate*Mulligan) in$4$ consequence of defective reunion of
14:335;0965['  ]| the maxillary knobs along the medial line so$3$ that$3$ (as he said) one ear could
14:335;0966['  ]| hear what the other spoke, the benefits of anesthesia or twilight sleep, the
14:335;0967['  ]| prolongation of labour pains in$4$ advanced gravidancy by$4$ reason of pressure
14:335;0968['  ]| on$4$ the vein, the premature relentment of the amniotic fluid (as exemplified
14:335;0969['  ]| in$4$ the actual case) with consequent peril of sepsis to$4$ the matrix, artificial
14:335;0970['  ]| insemination by$4$ means of syringes, involution of the womb consequent
14:335;0971['  ]| upon$4$ the menopause, the problem of the perpetration of the species in$4$ the
14:335;0972['  ]| case of females impregnated by$4$ delinquent rape, that$6#2$ distressing manner of
14:335;0973['  ]| delivery called by$4$ the Brandenburghers \Sturzgeburt\, the recorded instances
14:335;0974['  ]| of multiseminal, twikindled and monstrous births conceived during the
14:335;0975['  ]| catamenic period or of consanguineous parents  ~~  in$4$ a word all the cases of
14:335;0976['  ]| human nativity which$6#1$ Aristotle has classified in$4$ his masterpiece with
14:336;0977['  ]| chromolithographic illustrations. The gravest problems of obstetrics and
14:336;0978['  ]| forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most
14:336;0979['  ]| popular beliefs on$4$ the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to$4$ a gravid
14:336;0980['  ]| woman to$9$ step over a countrystile lest, by$4$ her movement, the navelcord
14:336;0981['  ]| should strangle her creature and the injunction upon$4$ her in$4$ the event of a
14:336;0982['  ]| yearning, ardently and ineffectually entertained, to$9$ place her hand against
14:336;0983['  ]| that$6#2$ part of her person which$6#1$ long usage has consecrated as the seat of
14:336;0984['  ]| castigation. The abnormalities of harelip, breastmole, supernumerary digits,
14:336;0985['  ]| negro's inkle, strawberry mark and portwine stain were alleged by$4$ one as a
14:336;0986['  ]| \prima\ \facie\ and natural hypothetical explanation of those swineheaded (the
14:336;0987['  ]| case of Madame*Grissel*Steevens was not forgotten) or doghaired infants
14:336;0988['  ]| occasionally born. The hypothesis of a plasmic memory, advanced by$4$ the
14:336;0989['  ]| Caledonian envoy and worthy of the metaphysical traditions of the land he
14:336;0990['  ]| stood for$4$, envisaged in$4$ such cases an arrest of embryonic development at
14:336;0991['  ]| some stage antecedent to$4$ the human. An outlandish delegate sustained
14:336;0992['  ]| against both these views, with such heat as almost carried conviction, the
14:336;0993['  ]| theory of copulation between women and the males of brutes, his authority
14:336;0994['  ]| being his own avouchment in$4$ support of fables such as that$6#2$ of the Minotaur
14:336;0995['  ]| which$6#1$ the genius of the elegant Latin poet has handed down to$4$ us in$4$ the
14:336;0996['  ]| pages of his Metamorphoses. The impression made by$4$ his words was
14:336;0997['  ]| immediate but shortlived. It was effaced as easily as it had been evoked by$4$
14:336;0998['  ]| an allocution from Mr*Candidate*Mulligan in$4$ that$6#2$ vein of pleasantry which$6#1$
14:336;0999['  ]| none better than he knew how to$9$ affect, postulating as the supremest object
14:336;1000['  ]| of desire a nice clean old man. Contemporaneously, a heated argument
14:336;1001['  ]| having arisen between Mr*Delegate*Madden and Mr*Candidate*Lynch
14:336;1002['  ]| regarding the juridical and theological dilemma created in$4$ the event of one
14:336;1003['  ]| Siamese twin predeceasing the other, the difficulty by$4$ mutual consent was
14:336;1004['  ]| referred to$4$ Mr*Canvasser*Bloom for$4$ instant submittal to$4$ Mr*Coadjutor*Deacon*Dedalus. 
14:336;1005['  ]| Hitherto silent, whether the better to$9$ show by$4$
14:336;1006['  ]| preternatural gravity that$3$ curious dignity of the garb with which$6#1$ he was
14:336;1007['  ]| invested or in$4$ obedience to$4$ an inward voice, he delivered briefly and, as
14:336;1008['  ]| some thought, perfunctorily the ecclesiastical ordinance forbidding man to$9$
14:336;1009['  ]| put asunder what God has joined.
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14:337;1038['  ]| What is the age of the soul of man? As she hath the virtue of the
14:337;1039['  ]| chameleon to$9$ change her hue at every new approach, to$9$ be gay with the
14:337;1040['  ]| merry and mournful with the downcast, so$3$ too is her age changeable as her
14:337;1041['  ]| mood. No$2$ longer is Leopold, as he sits there, ruminating, chewing the cud
14:337;1042['  ]| of reminiscence, that$6#2$ staid agent of publicity and holder of a modest
14:337;1043['  ]| substance in$4$ the funds. A score of years are blown away. He is young
14:337;1044['  ]| Leopold. There, as in$4$ a retrospective arrangement, a mirror within a mirror
14:337;1045['  ]| (hey, presto!), he beholdeth himself. That$6#2$ young figure of then is seen,
14:337;1046['  ]| precociously manly, walking on$4$ a nipping morning from the old house in$4$
14:337;1047['  ]| Clanbrassil*street to$4$ the high*school, his booksatchel on$4$ him bandolierwise,
14:337;1048['  ]| and in$4$ it a goodly hunk of wheaten loaf, a mother's thought. Or it is the
14:337;1049['  ]| same figure, a year or so$5#2$ gone over, in$4$ his first hard hat (ah, that$6#2$ was a
14:337;1050['  ]| day!), already on$4$ the road, a fullfledged traveller for$4$ the family firm,
14:337;1051['  ]| equipped with an orderbook, a scented handkerchief (not for$4$ show only),
14:337;1052['  ]| his case of bright trinketware (alas! a thing now of the past!) and a
14:337;1053['  ]| quiverful of compliant smiles for$4$ this or that$6#2$ halfwon housewife reckoning
14:337;1054['  ]| it out upon$4$ her fingertips or for$4$ a budding virgin, shyly acknowledging (but
14:337;1055['  ]| the heart? tell me!) his studied baisemoins. The scent, the smile, but, more
14:337;1056['  ]| than these, the dark eyes and oleaginous address, brought home at duskfall
14:337;1057['  ]| many a commission to$4$ the head of the firm, seated with Jacob's pipe after
14:337;1058['  ]| like$2$ labours in$4$ the paternal ingle (a meal of noodles, you may be sure, is
14:337;1059['  ]| aheating), reading through round horned spectacles some paper from the
14:337;1060['  ]| Europe of a month before. But hey, presto, the mirror is breathed on$5$ and
14:337;1061['  ]| the young knighterrant recedes, shrivels, dwindles to$4$ a tiny speck within the
14:337;1062['  ]| mist. Now he is himself paternal and these about him might be his sons.
14:337;1063['  ]| Who$6#2$ can say? The wise father knows his own child. He thinks of a
14:337;1064['  ]| drizzling night in$4$ Hatch*street, hard by$4$ the bonded stores there, the first.
14:337;1065['  ]| Together (she is a poor waif, a child of shame, yours and mine and of all for$4$
14:337;1066['  ]| a bare shilling and her luckpenny), together they hear the heavy tread of the
14:338;1067['  ]| watch as two raincaped shadows pass the new royal*university. Bridie!
14:338;1068['  ]| Bridie*Kelly! He will$1$ never forget the name, ever remember the night: first
14:338;1069['  ]| night, the bridenight. They are entwined in$4$ nethermost darkness, the willer
14:338;1070['  ]| with the willed, and in$4$ an instant (\fiat!\) light shall flood the world. Did
14:338;1071['  ]| heart leap to$4$ heart? Nay, fair reader. In$4$ a breath it was done but  ~~  hold!
14:338;1072['  ]| Back! It must not be! In$4$ terror the poor girl flees away through the murk.
14:338;1073['  ]| She is the bride of darkness, a daughter of night. She dare not bear the
14:338;1074['  ]| sunnygolden babe of day. No$7$, Leopold. Name and memory solace thee not.
14:338;1075['  ]| That$6#2$ youthful illusion of thy strength was taken from thee  ~~  and in$4$ vain.
14:338;1076['  ]| No$2$ son of thy loins is by$4$ thee. There is none now to$9$ be for$4$ Leopold, what
14:338;1077['  ]| Leopold was for$4$ Rudolph.
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14:340;1174['  ]| However, as a matter of fact though, the preposterous surmise about
14:340;1175['  ]| him being in$4$ some description of a doldrums or other or mesmerised which$6#1$
14:340;1176['  ]| was entirely due to$4$ a misconception of the shallowest character, was not the
14:340;1177['  ]| case at all. The individual whose visual organs while the above was going
14:340;1178['  ]| on$5$ were at this juncture commencing to$9$ exhibit symptoms of animation was
14:340;1179['  ]| as astute if not astuter than any man living and anybody that$6#1$ conjectured
14:340;1180['  ]| the contrary would have found themselves pretty speedily in$4$ the wrong
14:340;1181['  ]| shop. During the past four minutes or thereabouts he had been staring hard
14:340;1182['  ]| at a certain amount of number one Bass bottled by$4$ Messrs*Bass*and*Co at
14:340;1183['  ]| Burton-on-Trent which$6#1$ happened to$9$ be situated amongst a lot of others
14:340;1184['  ]| right opposite to$4$ where he was and which$6#1$ was certainly calculated to$9$ attract
14:340;1185['  ]| anyone's remark on$4$ account of its scarlet appearance. He was simply and
14:340;1186['  ]| solely, as it subsequently transpired for$4$ reasons best known to$4$ himself,
14:340;1187['  ]| which$6#1$ put quite an altogether different complexion on$4$ the proceedings, after
14:340;1188['  ]| the moment before's observations about boyhood days and the turf,
14:340;1189['  ]| recollecting two or three private transactions of his own which$6#1$ the other
14:340;1190['  ]| two were as mutually innocent of as the babe unborn. Eventually, however,
14:340;1191['  ]| both their eyes met and as soon as it began to$9$ dawn on$4$ him that$3$ the other
14:340;1192['  ]| was endeavouring to$9$ help himself to$4$ the thing he involuntarily determined
14:340;1193['  ]| to$9$ help him himself and so$3$ he accordingly took hold of the neck of the
14:340;1194['  ]| mediumsized glass recipient which$6#1$ contained the fluid sought after and
14:340;1195['  ]| made a capacious hole in$4$ it by$4$ pouring a lot of it out with, also at the same
14:340;1196['  ]| time, however, a considerable degree of attentiveness in$4$ order not to$9$ upset
14:340;1197['  ]| any of the beer that$6#1$ was in$4$ it about the place.
14:340;1198['  ]| The debate which$6#1$ ensued was in$4$ its scope and progress an epitome of
14:340;1199['  ]| the course of life. Neither place nor council was lacking in$4$ dignity. The
14:340;1200['  ]| debaters were the keenest in$4$ the land, the theme they were engaged on$4$ the
14:340;1201['  ]| loftiest and most vital. The high hall of Horne's house had never beheld an
14:341;1202['  ]| assembly so$5#1$ representative and so$5#1$ varied nor had the old rafters of that$6#2$
14:341;1203['  ]| establishment ever listened to$4$ a language so$5#1$ encyclopaedic. A gallant scene
14:341;1204['  ]| in$4$ truth it made. Crotthers was there at the foot of the table in$4$ his striking
14:341;1205['  ]| Highland garb, his face glowing from the briny airs of the Mull*of*Galloway. 
14:341;1206['  ]| There too, opposite to$4$ him, was Lynch whose countenance bore
14:341;1207['  ]| already the stigmata of early depravity and premature wisdom. Next the
14:341;1208['  ]| Scotchman was the place assigned to$4$ Costello, the eccentric, while at his
14:341;1209['  ]| side was seated in$4$ stolid repose the squat form of Madden. The chair of the
14:341;1210['  ]| resident indeed stood vacant before the hearth but on$4$ either flank of it the
14:341;1211['  ]| figure of Bannon in$4$ explorer's kit of tweed shorts and salted cowhide
14:341;1212['  ]| brogues contrasted sharply with the primrose elegance and townbred
14:341;1213['  ]| manners of Malachi*Roland*St*John*Mulligan. Lastly at the head of the
14:341;1214['  ]| board was the young poet who$6#1$ found a refuge from his labours of
14:341;1215['  ]| pedagogy and metaphysical inquisition in$4$ the convivial atmosphere of
14:341;1216['  ]| Socratic discussion, while to$4$ right and left of him were accommodated the
14:341;1217['  ]| flippant prognosticator, fresh from the hippodrome, and that$6#2$ vigilant
14:341;1218['  ]| wanderer, soiled by$4$ the dust of travel and combat and stained by$4$ the mire of
14:341;1219['  ]| an indelible dishonour, but from whose steadfast and constant heart no$2$ lure
14:341;1220['  ]| or peril or threat or degradation could ever efface the image of that$6#2$
14:341;1221['  ]| voluptuous loveliness which$6#1$ the inspired pencil of Lafayette has limned for$4$
14:341;1222['  ]| ages yet to$9$ come.