―Grattan and Flood wrote for this very paper, the editor cried in his face. Irish volunteers. Where are you now? Established 1763 . Dr Lucas. Who have you now like John Philpot Curran? Psha!

―Well, J. J. O’Molloy said, Bushe K. C. , for example.

―Bushe? the editor said. Well, yes. Bushe, yes. He has a strain of it in his blood. Kendal Bushe or I mean Seymour Bushe.

―He would have been on the bench long ago, the professor said, only for⁠ ⁠… But no matter.

J. J. O’Molloy turned to Stephen and said quietly and slowly: