Ulysses

He stepped swiftly off, his eyes coming to blue life as they passed a broad sunbeam. Buck Mulligan suddenly linked his arm in Stephen’s and walked with him round the tower, his razor and mirror clacking in the pocket where he had thrust them. On the steps of the City hall Councillor Nannetti, descending, hailed Alderman Cowley and Councillor Abraham Lyon ascending. The eternal question of the life connubial, needless to say, cropped up.