Four ---- One day when Father Butler was hearing the four pages of Roman History clumsy Leo Dillon was discovered with a copy of The Halfpenny Marvel. We had to be home before four o'clock lest our adventure should be discovered. In one of these trimly built cars was a party of four young men whose spirits seemed to be at present well above the level of successful Gallicism: in fact, these four young men were almost hilarious. The fourth member of the party, however, was too excited to be genuinely happy. Little Chandler took four or five sips from his glass. It began to sob piteously, losing its breath for four or five seconds, and then bursting out anew. I told you it must be ready by four o'clock.” The fire was nice and bright and on one of the side-tables were four very big barmbracks. Maria superintended the distribution of the barmbrack and saw that every woman got her four slices. He had himself bought every article of furniture in the room: a black iron bedstead, an iron washstand, four cane chairs, a clothes-rack, a coal-scuttle, a fender and irons and a square table on which lay a double desk. At four o'clock he was set free. Four years passed. He walked through the bleak alleys where they had walked four years before. Therefore she was not surprised when one day Mr Holohan came to her and proposed that her daughter should be the accompanist at a series of four grand concerts which his Society was going to give in the Antient Concert Rooms. She entered heart and soul into the details of the enterprise, advised and dissuaded; and finally a contract was drawn up by which Kathleen was to receive eight guineas for her services as accompanist at the four grand concerts. He said that the Committee had made a mistake in arranging for four concerts: four was too many. “The contract was for four concerts.” She called Mr Fitzpatrick away from his screen and told him that her daughter had signed for four concerts and that, of course, according to the terms of the contract, she should receive the sum originally stipulated for, whether the society gave the four concerts or not. On his fourth trial he had been awarded a bronze medal. He counted out four into Mrs Kearney's hand and said she would get the other half at the interval. “This is four shi.

Numbers in Dubliners by James Joyce

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