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Chapter 12

you, says Bloom.

―The strangers, says the citizen. Our own fault. We let them come in. We brought them. The adulteress and her paramour brought the Saxon robbers here.

―Decree nisi , says J. J.

And Bloom letting on to be awfully deeply interested in nothing, a spider’s web in the corner behind the barrel, and the citizen scowling after him and the old dog at his feet looking up to know who to bite and when.

―A dishonoured wife, says the citizen, that’s what the cause of all our misfortunes.

―And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette with Terry on the counter, in all her warpaint.

―Give us a squint at her, says I.

And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures

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