Sunday 2 February 2020

Wandering Rocks [10]


U10.11: one silver crown


“Father Conmee blessed him in the sun for his purse held, he knew, one silver crown.”
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U10.19: Buxton waters


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

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U10.32: arecanut paste


“Father Conmee doffed his silk hat and smiled, 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.”

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U10.61: Mrs M'Guinness, a pawnbroker

Advertisement published in the Evening Telegraph (last pink) of Thursday, July 25, 1907, ser. no. 8100

     Was that not Mrs M'Guinness?
     Mrs M'Guinness, stately, silverhaired, bowed to Father Conmee from the farther footpath along which she sailed. And Father Conmee smiled and saluted. How did she do?
     A fine carriage she had. Like Mary, queen of Scots, something. Ad to think that she was a pawnbroker! Well, now! Such a ... what should he say? .... such a queenly mien.


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U10.147: Le Nombre des Élus


“That book by the Belgian jesuit,
Le Nombre des Élus, seemed to Father Conmee a reasonable plea.”

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U10.161: Father Conmee's little book



“Father Conmee, walking, thought of his little book Old Times in the Barony an of the book that might be written about jesuit houses and of Mary Rochfort, daughter of lord Molesworth, first countess of Belvedere.”

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U10.190: Father Conmee's breviary with ivory boomark


“Father Conmee drew off his gloves and took his rededged breviary out. An ivory bookmark told him the page.”

U10.198 | U10.205:



Principium verborum tuorum veritas: in eternum omnia iudicia iustitiae tuae.” (...) “Principes persecuti sunt me gratis: et a verbis tuis formidavit cor meum.

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U10.364: Dalkey



“Almidano Artifoni, holding up a baton of rolled music as a signal, trotted on stout trousers after the Dalkey tram. In vain he trotted, signalling, in vain among the rout of barekneed gillies smuggling implements of music through Trinity gates.”


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U10.368: The Woman in White



“Miss Dunne hid the Capel street library copy of The Woman in White far back in her drawer and rolled a sheet of gaudy notepaper into her typewriter.”

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U10.408: saint Mary's abbey





Yes, sir, Ned Lambert said heartily. We are standing in the historic council chamber of saint Mary's abbey where silken Thomas proclaimed himself a rebel in 1534. This is the most historic spot in all Dublin. O'Madden Burke is going to write something about it one of these days. The old bank of Ireland was over the way till the time of the union and the original jews' temple was here too before they built their synagogue over in Adelaide road. You were never here before, Jack, were you?

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U10.585: The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk and Aristotle's Masterpiece






“Mr Bloom turned over idly pages of The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, then of Aristotle's Masterpiece.”

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U10.591: Tales of the Ghetto



“He laid both books aside and glanced at the third: Tales of the Ghetto by Leopold von Sacher Masoch.”

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U10.602: James Lovebirch


“Mr Bloom, alone, looked at the titles. Fair Tyrants by James Lovebirch. Know the kind that is. Had it? Yes.”


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U10.782: reminiscences of sir Jonah Barrington



“Mr Kernan approached Island street. Times of the troubles. Must ask Ned Lambert to lend me those reminiscences of sir Jonah Barrington.”

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U10.838: Irish Beekeeper. Life and Miracles of the Curé of Ars




      “He turned and halted by the slanted bookcart.
— Twopence each, the huckster said. Four for sixpence.
      Tattered pages. The Irish Beekeeper. Life and Miracles of the Curé of Ars. Pocket Guide to Killarney.”

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U10.841: alumno optimo



“I might find here one of my pawned schoolprizes. Stephano Dedalo, alumno optimo, palmam ferenti.

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U10:686: French primer



“He took the coverless book from her hand. Chardenal's French primer.”

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U10.957: Castleyard


“The youngster will be all right, Martin Cunningham said, as they passed out of the Castleyard gate.”

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U10.1175: the earl of Dudley



“William Humble, earl of Dudley, and lady Dudley, accompanied by lieutenantcolonel Heseltine, drove out after luncheon from the viceregal lodge.”


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