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When tired of this occupation, I would retire from the stairhead to the solitary and silent nursery: there, though somewhat sad, I was not miserable.

When he reached the open air, he threw his bundle down upon the ground, and then turned an ear to listen at the stairhead.

I took my candle in my hand and crept to the stairhead.

Then, above the stairhead, across the longer hall, appeared the helmet of a policeman.

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”