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1  Eyes of girls among the leaves.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  Some girls stood near the entrance door.
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3  Sometimes talks to girls after nightfall.
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4  Frowsy girls sat along the curbstones before their baskets.
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5  Eileen had long thin cool white hands too because she was a girl.
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6  For him there was nothing amusing in a girl's interest and regard.
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7  A girl stood before him in midstream, alone and still, gazing out to sea.
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8  The girl came back, making signs to him to be quick and go out quietly by the back.
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9  Women and girls dressed in long vivid gowns traversed the street from house to house.
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10  As he crossed the square, walking homeward, the light laughter of a girl reached his burning ear.
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11  A second shrill whistle, prolonged angrily, brought one of the girls to the foot of the staircase.
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12  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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13  The rain-laden trees of the avenue evoked in him, as always, memories of the girls and women in the plays of Gerhart Hauptmann; and the memory of their pale sorrows and the fragrance falling from the wet branches mingled in a mood of quiet joy.
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14  He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the sea-harvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight and gayclad lightclad figures of children and girls and voices childish and girlish in the air.
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15  He would know the sins, the sinful longings and sinful thoughts and sinful acts, of others, hearing them murmured into his ears in the confessional under the shame of a darkened chapel by the lips of women and of girls; but rendered immune mysteriously at his ordination by the imposition of hands, his soul would pass again uncontaminated to the white peace of the altar.
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