A moral umbrella

The scene: the Antient Concert Rooms, before the music begins. Hoppy Holohan, the concert’s manager, leads a memeber of the press to a room. Another member of the press is already there.

James Joyce, “A Mother,” in Dubliners (1914).

I read this story aloud yesterday as Elaine sewed. (What century are we living in?) This passage was one of many that made us laugh, also aloud, repeatedly.

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