"BLOOM

There is a memory attached to it. I should like to have it.

STEPHEN

To have or not to have, that is the question."

(U15.3519)
"ZOE

Here. (She hauls up a reef of her slip, revealing her bare thigh, and unrolls the potato from the top of her stocking.) Those that hides knows where to find."

(U15.3523)
"LYNCH

(calls from the hearth) Dedalus! Give her your blessing for me.

STEPHEN

(hands Bella a coin) Gold. She has it."

(U15.3537)
"BELLA

(looks at the money, then at Stephen, then at Zoe, Florry and Kitty) Do you want three girls? It's ten shillings here.

STEPHEN

(delightedly) A hundred thousand apologies. (he fumbles again and takes out and hands her two crowns) Permit, brevi manu, my sight is somewhat troubled."

(U15.3451)
"(Bella goes to the table to count the money while Stephen talks to himself in monosyllables. Zoe bends over the table. Kitty leans over Zoe's neck. Lynch gets up, rights his cap and, clasping Kitty's waist, adds his head to the group.)"

(U15.3548)
ZOE

(lifting up her pettigown and folding a half sovereign into the top of her stocking) Hard earned on the flat of my back.

LYNCH

(lifting Kitty from the table) Come!

KITTY

Wait. (she clutches the two crowns)

FLORRY

And me?

LYNCH

Hoopla!

(He lifts her, carries her and bumps her down on the sofa.)"

(U15.3564)
"STEPHEN

The fox crew, the cocks flew,
The bells in heaven
Were striking eleven.
'Tis time for her poor soul
To get out of heaven..

(U15.3576)
"BELLA

(admiringly) You're such a slyboots, old cocky. I could kiss you.

ZOE

(points) Him? Deep as a drawwell."

(U15.3585)
"(Lynch bends Kitty back over the sofa and kisses her. Bloom goes with the poundnote to Stephen.)

BLOOM

This is yours."

(U15.3589)
"STEPHEN

How is that? Le distrait or absentminded beggar. (He fumbles again in his pocket and draws out a handful of coins. An object falls.) That fell.."

(U15.3593)
BLOOM

(stooping, picks up and hands a box of matches) This.

STEPHEN

Lucifer. Thanks."

(U15.3596)
"BLOOM

(quietly) You had better hand over that cash to me to take care of. Why pay more?

STEPHEN

(hands him all his coins) Be just before you are generous.

BLOOM

I will but is it wise? (he counts) One, seven, eleven, and five. Six. Eleven. I don't answer for what you may have lost."

(U17.3600)
"STEPHEN

Why striking eleven? Proparoxyton. Moment before the next Lessing says. Thirsty fox. (He laughs loudly.) Burying his grandmother. Probably he killed her.

BLOOM

That is one pound six and eleven. One pound seven, say.

STEPHEN

Doesn't matter a rambling damn.

BLOOM

No, but....

STEPHEN

(comes to the table) Cigarette, please. (Lynch tosses a cigarette from the sofa to the table)."

(U15.3608)
"And so Georgina Johnson is dead and married. (A cigarette appears on the table. Stephen looks at it.) Wonder. Parlour magic. Married. Hm."

(U15.3620)
"(He strikes a match and proceeds to light the cigarette with enigmatic melancholy.)

LYNCH

(Watching him.) You would have a better chance of lighting it if you held the match nearer.

STEPHEN

(Brings the match nearer his eye.) Ly/nx eye. Must get glasses. Broke them yesterday. Sixteen years ago. Distance. The eye sees all flat. (He draws the match away. It goes out.) Brain thinks. Near: far. Ineluctable modality of the visible. (He frowns mysteriously.) Hm. Sphinx. The beast that has two backs at midnight. Married."

(U15.3622)
"ZOE

It was a commercial traveller married her and took her away with him.

FLORRY

(Nods.) Mr Lambe from London."

(U15.3633)
"ZOE

It was a commercial traveller married her and took her away with him.

FLORRY

(Nods.) Mr Lambe from London."

(U15.3633)
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