MURTAGH COSGAR
Wait till the fall and I'll give you money to go and
come back. Farrell Kavanagh often goes to America. You could go with
him.
MATT
I'll go by myself, unless Ellen Douras comes now. The creamery
owes me money for the carting, and I'll get it.
MURTAGH COSGAR
Then go. Good-bye to you, Matt Cosgar.
MATT
Good-bye to you.
_He goes out. Murtagh stands, then moves about vaguely_
MURTAGH COSGAR
The floor swept, the hearth tidied. It's a queer end
to it all. Twenty years I bid them offer. Twenty years, twenty years!
_Martin comes back_.
MURTAGH COSGAR
The men will be coming back.
MARTIN DOURAS
I suppose they will.
MURTAGH COSGAR
You're a queer fellow, Martin Douras. You went to
gaol for some meeting.
MARTIN DOURAS
Ay.
MURTAGH COSGAR
Them was the stirring times. I can't help but think
of you in gaol, and by yourself. What brings you back now?
MARTIN DOURAS
Ellen told me to go back. I should say something to
Matt, I think.
MURTAGH COSGAR
He went out as you came in.
MARTIN DOURAS
I'll go in when the house is quiet. I'll have a few
prayers to be saying this night.
MURTAGH COSGAR
I'm going to the fair.
MARTIN DOURAS
I won't be going to the fair.
MURTAGH COSGAR
Why won't you be going to the fair? Didn't you ask me
for a lift? You'll be going with me.
MARTIN DOURAS
I won't be going, and don't be overbearing me now,
Murtagh Cosgar.
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