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1  He was travelling with his father by the night mail to Cork.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide.
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3  They had unearthed traces of a Cork accent in his speech and made him admit that the Lee was a much finer river than the Liffey.
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4  They drove in a jingle across Cork while it was still early morning and Stephen finished his sleep in a bedroom of the Victoria Hotel.
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5  Another, a brisk old man, whom Mr Dedalus called Johnny Cashman, had covered him with confusion by asking him to say which were prettier, the Dublin girls or the Cork girls.
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6  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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7  He passed unchallenged among the docks and along the quays wondering at the multitude of corks that lay bobbing on the surface of the water in a thick yellow scum, at the crowds of quay porters and the rumbling carts and the ill-dressed bearded policeman.
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8  He listened without sympathy to his father's evocation of Cork and of scenes of his youth, a tale broken by sighs or draughts from his pocket flask whenever the image of some dead friend appeared in it or whenever the evoker remembered suddenly the purpose of his actual visit.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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