[101.01-102.17]: slander and jeers abound — until she appears, to protect him.
101.01 Dispersal women wondered. Was she fast?
101.02 Do tell us all about. As we want to hear allabout. So tellus tel-
101.03 las allabouter. The why or whether she looked alottylike like
101.04 ussies and whether he had his wimdop like themses shut? Notes
101.05 and queries, tipbids and answers, the laugh and the shout, the
101.06 ards and downs. Now listed to one aneither and liss them down
101.07 and smoothen out your leaves of rose. The war is o'er. Wimwim
101.08 wimwim! Was it Unity Moore or Estella Swifte or Varina Fay
101.09 or Quarta Quaedam? Toemaas, mark oom for yor ounckel! Pig-
101.10 eys, hold op med yer leg! Who, but who (for second time of
101.11 asking) was then the scourge of the parts about folkrich Luca-
101.12 lizod it was wont to be asked, as, in ages behind of the Homo
101.13 Capite Erectus, what price Peabody's money, or, to put it
101.14 bluntly, whence is the herringtons' white cravat, as, in epochs
101.15 more cainozoic, who struck Buckley though nowadays as then-
101.16 times every schoolfilly of sevenscore moons or more who know-
101.17 her intimologies and every colleen bawl aroof and every red-
101.18 flammelwaving warwife and widowpeace upon Dublin Wall for
101.19 ever knows as yayas is yayas how it was Buckleyself (we need
101.20 no blooding paper to tell it neither) who struck and the Russian
101.21 generals, da! da!, instead of Buckley who was caddishly struck
101.22 by him when be herselves. What fullpried paulpoison in the spy
101.23 of three castles or which hatefilled smileyseller? And that such
101.24 a vetriol of venom, that queen's head affranchisant, a quiet stink-
101.25 ingplaster zeal could cover, prepostered or postpaid! The lounge-
101.26 lizards of the pumproom had their nine days' jeer, and pratsch-
101.27 kats at their platschpails too and holenpolendom beside, Szpasz-
101.28 pas Szpissmas, the zhanyzhonies, when, still believing in her
101.29 owenglass, when izarres were twinklins, that the upper reaches
101.30 of her mouthless face and her impermanent waves were the better
101.31 half of her, one nearer him, dearer than all, first warming creature
101.32 of his early morn, bondwoman of the man of the house, and
101.33 murrmurr of all the mackavicks, she who had given his eye for
101.34 her bed and a tooth for a child till one one and one ten and one
101.35 hundred again, O me and O ye! cadet and prim, the hungray and
101.36 anngreen (and if she is older now than her teeth she has hair that
Summary Page 101:
But what the women wanted to hear was the story of ALP. Do tell us about her! The war is over. Wimwim wimwim! Who was the girl: was it Unity Moore, or Estella Swifte or Varina Fay or Quarta Quaedam? Ail the people were asking: Who had been the scourge about Lucalizod and who had struck Buckley? But now it is generally known that it was Buckley himself who struck, and the Russian generals—yes! yes!—who were caddishly struck by him (Here the Park adventure is linked forward to the episode of Buckley and the Russian General, pp. 338 ff. Da is Russian for “yes”). But finally, with all the gossip everywhere and his name on every tongue, that little woman, nearer him and dearer than all, first warming creature of his early morn, (102) stood forth, dragging the countryside in her train, with pawns, prelates, and pookas pelotting in her piece-bag, to crush the slander’s head (This passage carries forward the theme, introduced on pp. 10-11, of the little woman’s bag of battle souvenirs. Later, pp. 205-212, it will be told how she crushed the scandal by distributing among her children the inexhaustible contents of her bag).