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(Twisting.) Another!

(Screams.) O, it’s hell itself! Every nerve in my body aches like mad!

(Shouts.) Good, by the rumping jumping general! That’s the best bit of news I heard these six weeks. Here, don’t keep me waiting, damn you. (He slaps her face.)

(Whimpers.) You’re after hitting me. I’ll tell…

Hold him down, girls, till I squat on him.

Yes. Walk on him! I will.

I will. Don’t be greedy.

No, me. Lend him to me.

(Ferociously.) Can I help? (They hold and pinion Bloom.)

(Squats, with a grunt, on Bloom’s upturned face, puffing cigarsmoke, nursing a fat leg.) I see Keating Clay is elected chairman of the Richmond Asylum and bytheby Guinness’s preference shares are at sixteen three quarters. Curse me for a fool that I didn’t buy that lot Craig and Gardner told me about. Just my infernal luck, curse it. And that Goddamned outsider Throwaway at twenty