Ulysses: Chapter 10 Wandering Rocks

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• Author: James Joyce

　

THE SUPERIOR, THE VERY REVEREND JOHN CONMEE S. J, RESET HIS smooth watch in his interior

pocket as he came down the presbytery steps. Five to three. Just nice time to walk to

Artane. What was that boy's name again? Dignam, yes. Vere dignum et justum est. Brother

Swan was the person to see. Mr Cunningham's letter. Yes. Oblige him, if possible. Good

practical catholic: useful at mission time.


A onelegged sailor, swinging himself onward by lazy jerks of his crutches, growled some

notes. He jerked short before the convent of the sisters of charity and held out a peaked

cap for aims towards the very reverend John Conmee S. J. Father Conmee blessed him in the

sun for his purse held, he knew, one silver crown.

Father Conmee crossed to Mountjoy square. He thought, but not for long, of soldiers and

sailors, whose legs had been shot off by cannonballs, ending their days in some pauper

ward, and of cardinal Wolsey's words: If I had served my God as I have served my king He

would not have abandoned me in my old days. He walked by the treeshade of sunnywinking

leaves and towards him came the wife of Mr David Sheehy M. P.

-- Very well, indeed, father. And you father?

Father Conmee was wonderfully well indeed. He would go to Buxton probably for the

waters. And her boys, were they getting on well at Belvedere? Was that so? Father Conmee

was very glad indeed to hear that. And Mr Sheehy himself? Still in London. The house was

still sitting, to be sure it was. Beautiful weather it was, delightful indeed. Yes, it was

very probable that Father Bernard Vaughan would come again to preach. O, yes: a very great

success. A wonderful man really.

Father Conmee was very glad to see the wife of Mr David Sheehy M. P. looking so well

and he begged to be remembered to Mr David Sheehy M. P. Yes, he would certainly call.

-- Good afternoon, Mrs Sheehy.

Father Conmee doffed his silk hat, as he took leave, at the jet beads of her mantilla

inkshining in the sun. And smiled yet again in going. He had cleaned his teeth, he knew,

with arecanut paste.

Father Conmee walked and, walking, smiled for he thought on Father Bernard Vaughan's

droll eyes and cockney voice.

-- Pilate! Wy don't you old back that owlin mob?

A zealous man, however. Really he was. And really did great good in his way. Beyond a

doubt. He loved Ireland, he said, and he loved the Irish. Of good family too would one

think it? Welsh, were they not?

O, lest he forget. That letter to father provincial.

Father Conmee stopped three little schoolboys at the corner of Mountjoy square. Yes:

they were from Belvedere. The little house: Aha. And were they good boys at school? O.

That was very good now. And what was his name? Jack Sohan. And his name? Ger. Gallaher.

And the other little man? His name was Brunny Lynam. O, that was a very nice name to have.

Father Conmee gave a letter from his breast to master Brunny Lynam and pointed to the

red pillarbox at the corner of Fitzgibbon street.

-- But mind you don't post yourself into the box, little man, he said.

The boys sixeyed Father Conmee and laughed.

-- O, sir.

-- Well, let me see if you can post a letter, Father Conmee said.

Master Brunny Lynam ran across the road and put Father Conmee's letter to father

provincial into the mouth of the bright red letterbox, Father Conmee smiled and nodded and

smiled and walked along Mountjoy square east.

Mr Denis J. Maginni, professor of dancing,

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