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DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
2 Old Cotter looked at me for a while.
DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
3 But the grey face still followed me.
DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
4 "No, no, not for me," said old Cotter.
DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
5 But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being.
DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
6 He had often said to me: "I am not long for this world," and I had thought his words idle.
DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
7 It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.
DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
8 I wondered at this for, as my uncle had said the night before, he had taught me a great deal.
DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
9 He had studied in the Irish college in Rome and he had taught me to pronounce Latin properly.
DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
10 I knew that I was under observation so I continued eating as if the news had not interested me.
DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
11 The reading of the card persuaded me that he was dead and I was disturbed to find myself at check.
DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
12 I felt my soul receding into some pleasant and vicious region; and there again I found it waiting for me.
DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
13 I felt that his little beady black eyes were examining me but I would not satisfy him by looking up from my plate.
DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
14 Perhaps my aunt would have given me a packet of High Toast for him and this present would have roused him from his stupefied doze.
DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
15 It began to confess to me in a murmuring voice and I wondered why it smiled continually and why the lips were so moist with spittle.
DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
16 Though I was angry with old Cotter for alluding to me as a child, I puzzled my head to extract meaning from his unfinished sentences.
DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
17 He had told me stories about the catacombs and about Napoleon Bonaparte, and he had explained to me the meaning of the different ceremonies of the Mass and of the different vestments worn by the priest.
DublinersBy James Joyce Get Context In THE SISTERS
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