A Painful Case
James Joyce
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Mr James Duffy lived in Chapelizod because he wished to live as far as possible from the city…
Mr Duffy abhorred anything which betokened physical or mental disorder. A mediæval doctor would have called him saturnine.…
He had been for many years cashier of a private bank in Baggot Street. Every morning he came…
He had neither companions nor friends, church nor creed. He lived his spiritual life without any communion with…
One evening he found himself sitting beside two ladies in the Rotunda. The house, thinly peopled and silent,…
“What a pity there is such a poor house tonight! It’s so hard on people to have to…
He took the remark as an invitation to talk. He was surprised that she seemed so little awkward.…
He met her again a few weeks afterwards at a concert in Earlsfort Terrace and seized the moments…
Meeting her a third time by accident he found courage to make an appointment. She came. This was…
Sometimes in return for his theories she gave out some fact of her own life. With almost maternal…
She asked him why did he not write out his thoughts. For what, he asked her, with careful…
He went often to her little cottage outside Dublin; often they spent their evenings alone. Little by little,…
Mr Duffy was very much surprised. Her interpretation of his words disillusioned him. He did not visit her…
Four years passed. Mr Duffy returned to his even way of life. His room still bore witness of…
One evening as he was about to put a morsel of corned beef and cabbage into his mouth…
He walked along quickly through the November twilight, his stout hazel stick striking the ground regularly, the fringe…
DEATH OF A LADY AT SYDNEY PARADE
A PAINFUL CASE
Today at the City of Dublin Hospital the Deputy Coroner (in the absence of Mr Leverett) held an…
James Lennon, driver of the engine, stated that he had been in the employment of the railway company…
P. Dunne, railway porter, stated that as the train was about to start he observed a woman attempting…
_A juror_. “You saw the lady fall?”
_Witness_. “Yes.”
Police Sergeant Croly deposed that when he arrived he found the deceased lying on the platform apparently dead.…
Constable 57E corroborated.
Dr Halpin, assistant house surgeon of the City of Dublin Hospital, stated that the deceased had two lower…
Mr H. B. Patterson Finlay, on behalf of the railway company, expressed his deep regret at the accident.…
Captain Sinico, of Leoville, Sydney Parade, husband of the deceased, also gave evidence. He stated that the deceased…
Miss Mary Sinico said that of late her mother had been in the habit of going out at…
The Deputy Coroner said it was a most painful case, and expressed great sympathy with Captain Sinico and…
Mr Duffy raised his eyes from the paper and gazed out of his window on the cheerless evening…
As the light failed and his memory began to wander he thought her hand touched his. The shock…
The proprietor served him obsequiously but did not venture to talk. There were five or six workingmen in…
As he sat there, living over his life with her and evoking alternately the two images in which…
It was after nine o’clock when he left the shop. The night was cold and gloomy. He entered…
When he gained the crest of the Magazine Hill he halted and looked along the river towards Dublin,…
He turned back the way he had come, the rhythm of the engine pounding in his ears. He…