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DUBLINERS
by James Joyce
The Oxford Archive text corrected
} opens italics
{ closes italics
(NB: italics are opened and closed before
and after words individually.)
$ marks indented paragraph
$/ marks unindented paragraph
$$$ marks assorted indentations (verse etc.).
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$$$$THE SISTERS
$/There was no hope for him this time: it was the third
stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation
time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night
after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and
evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of
candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles
must be set at the head of a corpse. He had often said to me:
}I{ }am{ }not{ }long{ }for{ }this{ }world{, and I had thought his words idle.
Now I knew they were true. Every night as I gazed up at the
window I said softly to myse . . .
