{Consider first Conmee's prologue, which with Humbles epilogue 
forms a frame.]


[ p. 207-209 ]

William Humble, earl of Dudley, and Lady Dudley, accompanied by
lieutenantcolonel Hesseltine, drove out after luncheon from the
viceregal lodge. In the following carriage were the honourable Mrs
Paget, Miss de Courcy and the honourable Gerald Ward, A.D.C. in
attendance.

The cavalcade passed out by the lower gate of Phoenix Park saluted by
obsequious policemen and proceeded past Kingsbridge along the northern
quays. The viceroy was most cordially greeted on his way through the
metropolis. At Bloody bridge Mr Thomas Kernan beyond the river greeted
him vainly from afar. Between Queen's and Whitworth bridges Lord
Dudley's viceregal carriages passed and were unsaluted by Mr Dudley
White, B.L., M.A., who stood on Arran Quay outside Mrs M.E. White's,
the pawnbroker's, at the corner of Arran street west stroking his nose
with his forefinger, undecided whether he should arrive at
Phibsborough more quickly by a triple change of tram or by hailing a
car or on foot through Smithfield, Constitution hill and Broadstone
terminus. In the porch of Four Courts Richie Goulding with the
costsbag of Goulding, Collis and Ward saw him with surprise. 
Past Richmond bridge at the doorstep of the office of Reuben J. Dodd,
solicitor, agent for the Patriotic Insurance Company, an elderly
female about to enter changed her plan and retracing her steps by
King's windows smiled credulously on the representative of His
Majesty. From its sluice in Wood quay wall under Tom Devan's office
Poddle river hung out in fealty a tongue of liquid sewage. Above the
crossblind of the Ormond Hotel, gold by bronze, Miss Kennedy's head by
Miss Douce's head watched and admired. On Ormond quay Mr Simon
Dedalus, steering his way from the greenhouse for the subsheriff's
office, stood still in midstreet and brought his hat low. His
Excellency graciously returned Mr Dedalus' greeting. 

...

Tom Rochford, seeing the eyes
of lady Dudley on him, took his thumbs quickly out of the pockets of
his claret waistcoat and doffed his cap to her. A charming soubrette,
great Marie Kendall, with dauby cheeks and lifted skirt, smiled
daubily from her poster upon William Humble, earl of Dudley, and upon
lieutenantcolonel H.G. Hesseltine and also upon the honourable Gerald
Ward A.D.C. From the window of the D.B.C. Buck Mulligan gaily, and
Haines gravely, gazed down on the viceregal equipage over the
shoulders of eager guests, whose mass of forms darkened the chessboard
whereon John Howard Parnell looked intently. In Fownes's street Dilly
Dedalus, straining her sight upward from Chardenal's first French
primer, saw sunshades spanned and wheelspokes spinning in the glare
John Henry Menton, filling the doorway of Commercial Buildings, stared
from winebig oyster eyes, holding a fat gold hunter watch not looked
at in his fat left hand not feeling it. Where the foreleg of King
Billy's horse pawed the air Mrs Breen plucked her hastening husband
back from under the hoofs of the outriders. She shouted in his ear the
tidings. Understanding, he shifted his tomes to his left breast and
saluted the second carriage. The honourable Gerald Ward A.D.C.,
agreeably surprised, made haste to reply. 

...

As the glossy horses
pranced by Merrion square Master Patrick Aloysius Dignam, waiting, saw
salutes being given to the gent with the topper and raised also his
new black cap with fingers greased by porksteak paper. His collar too
sprang up. The viceroy, on his way to inaugurate the Mirus bazaar in
aid of funds for Mercer's hospital, drove with his following towards
Lower Mount street. He passed a blind stripling opposite
Broadbent's. In Lower Mount street a pedestrian in a brown macintosh,
eating dry bread, passed swiftly and unscathed across the viceroy's
path. At the Royal Canal bridge, from his hoarding, Mr Eugene
Stratton, his blub lips agrin, bade all comers welcome to Pembroke
township. At Haddington road corner two sanded women halted
themselves, an umbrella and a bag in which eleven cockles rolled to
view with wonder the lord mayor and lady mayoress without his golden
chain. On Northumberland and Landsdowne roads His Excellency
acknowledged punctually salutes from rare male walkers, the salute of
two small schoolboys at the garden gate of the house said to have been
admired by the late queen when visiting the Irish capital with her
husband, the prince consort, in 1849 and the salute of Almidano
Artifoni's sturdy trousers swallowed by a closing door.