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Ben Dollard frowned and, making suddenly a chanter’s
mouth, gave forth a deep note.
—Aw! he said.
—That’s the style, Mr Dedalus said, nodding to its
drone.
—What about that? Ben Dollard said. Not too dusty?
What?
He turned to both.
—That’ll do, Father Cowley said, nodding also.
The reverend Hugh C. Love walked from the old chap-
terhouse of saint Mary’s abbey past James and Charles
Kennedy’s, rectifiers, attended by Geraldines tall and per-
sonable, towards the Tholsel beyond the ford of hurdles.
Ben Dollard with a heavy list towards the shopfronts led
them forward, his joyful fingers in the air.
—Come along with me to the subsheriff ’s office, he said.
I want to show you the new beauty Rock has for a bailiff.
He’s a cross between Lobengula and Lynchehaun. He’s well
worth seeing, mind you. Come along. I saw John Henry
Menton casually in the Bodega just now and it will cost me
a fall if I don’t ... Wait awhile ... We’re on the right lay, Bob,
believe you me.
—For a few days tell him, Father Cowley said anxiously.
Ben Dollard halted and stared, his loud orifice open, a
dangling button of his coat wagging brightbacked from its
thread as he wiped away the heavy shraums that clogged his
eyes to hear aright.
—What few days? he boomed. Hasn’t your landlord dis-
trained for rent?