The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite. Alluding to the encounter he said, laughingly, Stephen, that is:.
to come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again
الواصلة
to come, or go, a·gain in·to the pres·ence of; to join the com·pa·ny of a·gain