"The good go and the wicked is left over."

(389.30-391.12)  Today's passage begins with an interruption to Marcus's address:  "Queh?  Quos?"  (This seems to be someone -- the narrator, maybe, or one of the other three old men -- seemingly asking, "And?  Who?")  Marcus resumes by saying that it was "so scalding sorry" for the four old men, along with "their familiar" (a mysterious figure who has been hinted at before and pops up at least twice in today's reading) and Lally (some kind of public servant associated with the four old men).  At this point in their shared history, Lally was down on his luck:  he "lost part of his half a hat and all belongings to him."  Lally was trying to forget the past when Buckley shot the Russian General ("when the burglar he shoved the wretch in churneroil").  Marcus establishes Buckley in opposition to both Lally ("the ballast master of Gosterstown") and the Russian General ("his old fellow, the Lagener").  With the General lying down dead, "with his ladder up" (like Tim Finnegan, who "died" after having fallen off his ladder), Buckley "couldn't stop laughing over Tom Tim Tarpey, the Welshman, and the four middleaged widowers."

Thinking about the four old men again reminds Marcus of themselves -- "the four of the Welsh waves" -- in their better days, when they went about "leaping laughing, in their Lumbag Walk, over old Battleshore and Deaddleconch, in their half a Roman hat, with an ancient Greek gloss on it."  This was four years after they were all divorced, when they would part without sadness, but rather "raining water laughing."  Those days are over now, however, and all that is good is gone:  "The good go and the wicked is left over.  As evil flows so Ivel flows."

Next up is Lucas's address.  He jumps right in, remembering when "Carpery of the Goold Fins was in the kingship of Pooland."  His thoughts are focused upon "Mrs Dowager Justice Squalchman," who wore "her fullbottom wig and beard" at "the Married Male Familyman's Auctioneer's court in Arrahnacuddle."  Johnny, Lucas says, was frightened of the Mrs. Dowager Justice "on account of her full bottom."  As they walked around the auction grounds, the mysterious familiar person (here referred to as "a hing") trailed them because he was derelict in his duties "grooming her ladyship."