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ministers of the gospel as a whole, his erstwhile staunch ad-
herents, and his beloved evicted tenants for whom he had
done yeoman service in the rural parts of the country by
taking up the cudgels on their behalf in a way that exceeded
their most sanguine expectations, very effectually cooked
his matrimonial goose, thereby heaping coals of fire on his
head much in the same way as the fabled ass’s kick. Looking
back now in a retrospective kind of arrangement all seemed
a kind of dream. And then coming back was the worst thing
you ever did because it went without saying you would feel
out of place as things always moved with the times. Why,
as he reflected, Irishtown strand, a locality he had not been
in for quite a number of years looked different somehow
since, as it happened, he went to reside on the north side.
North or south, however, it was just the wellknown case of
hot passion, pure and simple, upsetting the applecart with
a vengeance and just bore out the very thing he was saying
as she also was Spanish or half so, types that wouldn’t do
things by halves, passionate abandon of the south, casting
every shred of decency to the winds.
—Just bears out what I was saying, he, with glowing bo-
som said to Stephen, about blood and the sun. And, if I don’t
greatly mistake she was Spanish too.
—The king of Spain’s daughter, Stephen answered, add-
ing something or other rather muddled about farewell
and adieu to you Spanish onions and the first land called
the Deadman and from Ramhead to Scilly was so and so
many.
—Was she? Bloom ejaculated, surprised though not