But
make sure of the mineral rights, men; make sure of the mineral rights.
_The men go out; Cornelius follows them._
MURTAGH COSGAR
_(with irony)_ Musha, but that's a well-discoursed lad. It must
be great to hear the two of you at it.
MARTIN DOURAS
God be good to Cornelius. There's little of the world's harm in the
boy.
MURTAGH COSGAR
He and my Sally would make a great match of it. She's a bright one,
too.
MARTIN DOURAS
Murtagh Cosgar, have you no feeling for your own flesh and blood?
MURTAGH COSGAR
Too much feeling, maybe. _(He stands at the door in silence. With
sudden enthusiasm)_ Ah, but that's the sight to fill one's heart.
Lands ploughed and spread. And all our own; all our own.
MARTIN DOURAS
All our own, ay. But we made a hard fight for them.
MURTAGH COSGAR
Ay.
MARTIN DOURAS
Them that come after us will never see them as we're seeing them now.
MURTAGH COSGAR
_(turning round)_ Them that come after us. Isn't that a great thought,
Martin Douras? and isn't it a great thing that we're able to pass this
land on to them, and it redeemed for ever? Ay, and their manhood spared
the shame that our manhood knew. Standing in the rain with our hats off
to let a landlord--ay, or a landlord's dog-boy--pass the way!
MARTIN DOURAS
_(mournfully)_ May it be our own generation that will be in it. Ay,
but the young are going fast; the young are going fast.
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