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1  He knelt among them, happy and shy.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  He would kneel and pray with others and be happy.
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3  His soul was made fair and holy once more, holy and happy.
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4  He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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5  He sat by the fire in the kitchen, not daring to speak for happiness.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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6  He was happy and free; but he would not be anyway proud with Father Dolan.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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7  Take hands together, my dear children, and you will be happy together and your hearts will love each other.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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8  His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth.
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9  He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone or in the company of phantasmal comrades.
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10  Perhaps he prayed for the souls in purgatory or for the grace of a happy death or perhaps he prayed that God might send him back a part of the big fortune he had squandered in Cork.
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11  The consciousness of the warm sunny city outside his window and the tender tremors with which his father's voice festooned the strange sad happy air, drove off all the mists of the night's ill humour from Stephen's brain.
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12  Then he saw himself sitting at the old piano, striking chords softly from its speckled keys and singing, amid the talk which had risen again in the room, to her who leaned beside the mantelpiece a dainty song of the Elizabethans, a sad and sweet loth to depart, the victory chant of Agincourt, the happy air of Greensleeves.
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13  MacCann began to speak with fluent energy of the Tsar's rescript, of Stead, of general disarmament arbitration in cases of international disputes, of the signs of the times, of the new humanity and the new gospel of life which would make it the business of the community to secure as cheaply as possible the greatest possible happiness of the greatest possible number.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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