Woa!
―Pretty countryfolk had few chattels then, John Eglinton observed, as they have still if our peasant plays are true to type.
―He was a rich countrygentleman, Stephen said, with a coat of arms and landed estate at Stratford and a house in Ireland yard, a capitalist shareholder, a bill promoter, a tithefarmer. Why did he not leave her his best bed if he wished her to snore away the rest of her nights in peace?
―It is clear that there were two beds, a best and a secondbest, Mr Secondbest Best said finely.
― Separatio a mensa et a thalamo , bettered Buck Mulligan and was smiled on.
―Antiquity mentions famous beds, Second Eglinton puckered, bedsmiling. Let me think.