Paragraph 21
“She trusts me, her hand gentle, the longlashed eyes.”
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Stephen imagines a woman taking his hand and trusting him, then asks where he could lead her. He tries to picture a young woman he saw looking into Hodges Figgis’ bookshop, imagining she might read the alphabet books he once
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