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of G natural for voice and piano of Love’s Old Sweet Song
(words by G. Clifton Bingham, composed by J. L. Molloy,
sung by Madam Antoinette Sterling) open at the last page
with the final indications ad libitum, forte, pedal, animato,
sustained pedal, ritirando, close.
With what sensations did Bloom contemplate in rotation
these objects?
With strain, elevating a candlestick: with pain, feeling
on his right temple a contused tumescence: with atten-
tion, focussing his gaze on a large dull passive and a slender
bright active: with solicitation, bending and downturning
the upturned rugfringe: with amusement, remembering Dr
Malachi Mulligan’s scheme of colour containing the gra-
dation of green: with pleasure, repeating the words and
antecedent act and perceiving through various channels of
internal sensibility the consequent and concomitant tepid
pleasant diffusion of gradual discolouration.
His next proceeding?
From an open box on the majolicatopped table he ex-
tracted a black diminutive cone, one inch in height, placed
it on its circular base on a small tin plate, placed his can-
dlestick on the right corner of the mantelpiece, produced
from his waistcoat a folded page of prospectus (illustrated)
entitled Agendath Netaim, unfolded the same, examined it
superficially, rolled it into a thin cylinder, ignited it in the
candleflame, applied it when ignited to the apex of the cone
till the latter reached the stage of rutilance, placed the cylin-
der in the basin of the candlestick disposing its unconsumed
part in such a manner as to facilitate total combustion.