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Wyse, if Susan will allow me to get a word in edgeways." Susan seemed delighted to let Miss Mapp get this particular word in edgewise, and after a little speech from Mr.
Wyse occupied the entire foreground of Miss Mapp's consciousness. Mean and cunning as Susan's conduct must have been in entrapping Mr.
Wyse's table, and such squabbling as took place at the other tables was conducted in low hissings and whispers, so that Mr. Wyse should not hear. Diva never haggled over her gains or losses when he was there, the Padre never talked Scotch or Elizabethan English.
"But hadn't it?" she said. And I told Mr. Wyse." Miss Mapp cursed herself for her frankness. "I am in such a difficult position," she said. "I think I ought to let it be understood that there is no truth whatever in such an idea, however much truth there may be. And did dear Mr. Wyse believe in fact, I know he must have, for he wrote me, oh, such a delicate, understanding note.
And they will come again and with a vengeance, no cravens, the sons of Granuaile, the champions of Kathleen ni Houlihan. Perfectly true, says Bloom. But my point was... We are a long time waiting for that day, citizen, says Ned. Since the poor old woman told us that the French were on the sea and landed at Killala. Ay, says John Wyse.
A couple of reefs were hauled down in the mainsail and staysail, and everything got ready for making sail. "Is all clear for'ard for slipping, Mr. Wyse?" "Ay, ay, Sir; all clear!" "Let go the tow-ropes!" "All gone, Sir!"
Wyse and asking for the loan of a book, so that she would see whether the sables were in the hall, but even then she would not really be much further on. Even as she considered this a sea-mist began to creep through the street outside, and in a few minutes it was blotted from view. Nothing was visible, and nothing audible but the hissing of the shrouded rain.
Quite right, Martin Cunningham said, taking the list. And put down the five shillings too. Without a second word either, Mr Power said. Strange but true, Martin Cunningham added. John Wyse Nolan opened wide eyes. I'll say there is much kindness in the jew, he quoted, elegantly. They went down Parliament street. There's Jimmy Henry, Mr Power said, just heading for Kavanagh's.
As the austere figure of Léontine Fay passes away, hidden in a cloud of sunny dust raised by the wheels of a hundred carriages, another form comes upon the stage, radiant amongst the most brilliant, the observed of all observers Madame Rattazzi, née Princess Bonaparte Wyse. What a wonderful toilette is hers!
Wyse or the dentist, for she was the sort of woman who would like to appear grand in the dentist's chair, so that he might be shy of hurting such a fine lady. Then again, Mrs. Poppit had wonderful teeth, almost too good to be true, and before now she had asked who lived at that pretty little house just round the corner, as if to show that she didn't know where the dentist lived!
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