Quotation from: Ulysses

Written by: James Joyce

The shopman lifted eyes bleared with old rheum.

--SWEETS OF SIN, he said, tapping on it. That's a good one.

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The lacquey by the door of Dillon's auctionrooms shook his handbell
twice again and viewed himself in the chalked mirror of the cabinet.

Dilly Dedalus, loitering by the curbstone, heard the beats of the bell,
the cries of the auctioneer within. Four and nine. Those lovely curtains.
Five shillings. Cosy curtains. Selling new at two guineas. Any advance on
five shillings? Going for five shillings.