was the 8th then I wrote the night he kissed my heart at Dolphins barn I
couldnt describe it simply it makes you feel like nothing on earth but he
never knew how to embrace well like Gardner I hope hell come on Monday
as he said at the same time four I hate people who come at all hours answer
the door you think its the vegetables then its somebody and you all undressed
or the door of the filthy sloppy kitchen blows open the day old frostyface
Goodwin called about the concert in Lombard street and I just after dinner all
flushed and tossed with boiling old stew dont look at me professor I had to
say Im a fright yes but he was a real old gent in his way it was impossible
to be more respectful nobody to say youre out you have to peep out through
the blind like the messengerboy today I thought it was a putoff first him
sending the port and the peaches first and I was just beginning to yawn with
nerves thinking he was trying to make a fool of me when I knew his tattarrattat at
the door he must have been a bit late because it was 1/4 after 3 when I saw the
2 Dedalus girls coming from school I never know the time even that watch
he gave me never seems to go properly Id want to get it looked after when I
threw the penny to that lame sailor for England home and beauty when I was
whistling there is a charming girl I love and I hadnt even put on my clean shift
or powdered myself or a thing then this day week were to go to Belfast just as
well he has to go to Ennis his fathers anniversary the 27 th it wouldnt be pleasant
if he did suppose our rooms at the hotel were beside each other and any
fooling went on in the new bed I couldnt tell him to stop and not bother me
with him in the next room or perhaps some protestant clergyman with a
cough knocking on the wall then he wouldnt believe next day we didnt do
something its all very well a husband but you cant fool a lover after me telling
him we never did anything of course he didnt believe me no its better hes
going where he is besides something always happens with him the time going
to the Mallow Concert at Maryborough ordering boiling soup for the two of
us then the bell rang out he walks down the platform with the soup splashing
about taking spoonfuls of it hadnt he the nerve and the waiter after him
making a holy show of us screeching and confusion for the engine to start
but he wouldnt pay till he finished it the two gentlemen in the 3rd class
carriage said he was quite right so he was too hes so pigheaded sometimes
when he gets a thing into his head a good job he was able to open the carriage
door with his knife or theyd have taken us on to Cork I suppose that was
done out of revenge on him O I love jaunting in a train or a car with lovely
soft cushions I wonder will he take a ist class for me he might want to do it
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