I'm the last
of my name, but that won't keep me here. I leave you your lands, your
twenty years' purchase. Murtagh Cosgar, Murtagh Cosgar! isn't that a
great name, Martin Douras--a name that's well planted, a name for
generations? Isn't he a lucky man that has a name for generations?
_(He goes out)_
MURTAGH COSGAR
He can't go. How could he go and he the last of the name. Close the
door, I say.
MARTIN DOURAS
He'll go to Ellen, surely. We'll lose both of them. Murtagh Cosgar,
God comfort you and me.
MURTAGH COSGAR
Ellen; who's Ellen? Ay, that daughter of yours. Close the door, I say.
_He sits down at fireplace. Martin Douras closes door and goes to
him_.
CURTAIN
ACT II
_Interior of Martin Douras'. The entrance is at back left. There
is a dresser against wall back; a table down from dresser; room
doors right and left. The fireplace is below the room door right;
there are stools and chairs about it. There is a little bookcase
left of the dresser, and a mirror beside it. There are patriotic and
religious pictures on the wall. There are cups and saucers on table,
and a teapot beside fire. It is afternoon still. Ellen Douras is
near the fire reading. Cornelius comes in slowly_.
CORNELIUS
I left the men down the road a bit. We ought to take great pride out
of this day, Ellen. Father did more than any of them to bring it
about.
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