"Poldy anyhow whatever he does always wipes his feet on the mat when he comes in wet or shine and always blacks his own boots too" (U18.225)
"and he always takes off his hat when he comes up in the street like then and now hes going about in his slippers to look for £10000 for a postcard U p up O sweetheart May wouldnt a thing like that simply bore you stiff to extinction actually too stupid even to take his boots off now what could you make of a man like that" (U18.227)
"Id rather die 20 times over than marry another of their sex of course hed never find another woman like me to put up with him the way I do know me come sleep with me yes and he knows that too at the bottom of his heart" (18.231)
"take that Mrs Maybrick that poisoned her husband for what I wonder in love with some other man yes it was found out on her wasnt she the downright villain to go and do a thing like that of course some men can be dreadfully aggravating drive you mad and always the worst word in the world " (U18.234)
"what do they ask us to marry them for if were so bad as all that comes to yes because they cant get on without us" (U18.238)
"white Arsenic she put in his tea off flypaper wasnt it I wonder why they call it that if I asked him hed say its from the Greek leave us as wise as we were before she must have been madly in love with the other fellow to run the chance of being hanged O she didnt care if that was her nature what could she do besides theyre not brutes enough to go and hang a woman surely are they" (U18.240)
"Boylan talking about the shape of my foot he noticed at once even before he was introduced when I was in the D B C with Poldy laughing and trying to listen I was waggling my foot we both ordered 2 teas and plain bread and butter" (U18.246)
"I saw him looking with his two old maids of sisters when I stood up and asked the girl where it was what do I care with it dropping out of me" (U18.249)
"and that black closed breeches he made me buy takes you half an hour to let them down wetting all myself always with some brandnew fad every other week such a long one I did I forgot my suede gloves on the seat behind that I never got after some robber of a woman and he wanted me to put it in the Irish times lost in the ladies lavatory D B C Dame street finder return to Mrs Marion Bloom" (U18.251)
Ladies' drawers were indeed available in a choice of 'Open or closed style' as seen in this Sears Roebuck catalog. [Image courtesy of the ZJJF]
Ladies' drawers were indeed available in a choice of 'Open or closed style' as seen in this Sears Roebuck catalog. [Image courtesy of the ZJJF]
"and I saw his eyes on my feet going out through the turning door he was looking when I looked back" (U8.256)
"and I went there for tea 2 days after in the hope but he wasnt now how did that excite him because I was crossing them when we were in the other room first he meant the shoes that are too tight to walk in" (U18.258)
"my hand is nice like that if I only had a ring with the stone for my month a nice aquamarine Ill stick him for one and a gold bracelet I dont like my foot so much still I made him spend once with my foot the night after Goodwins botchup of a concert so cold and windy" (U18.261)
"it was well we had that rum in the house to mull and the fire wasnt black out when he asked to take off my stockings lying on the hearthrug in Lombard street west" (U14.264)
"and another time it was my muddy boots hed like me to walk in all the horses dung I could find but of course hes not natural like the rest of the world that I what did he say I could give 9 points in 10 to Katty Lanner and beat her what does that mean I asked him" (U18.266)
"I forget what he said because the stoppress edition just passed and the man with the curly hair in the Lucan dairy thats so polite I think I saw his face before somewhere" (U18.268)
"I noticed him when I was tasting the butter so I took my time Bartell dArcy too that he used to make fun of when he commenced kissing me on the choir stairs" (U18.272)