New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory
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wildest home and the worst! Look at here now. Let me stop along with
yourself. I never let out so much of my heart to any one at all till this day. It's a pity we should be parted! _Taig:_ Is it to come following after me you would, before the face of Dermot? _Darby:_ I'd feel no dread and you being at my side. _Taig:_ Dermot to see me in company with the like of you! I wouldn't for the whole world he should be aware I had ever any traffic with chimneys or with soot. It would not be for his honour you to draw anear him! _Darby: (Indignantly.)_ No but Timothy that would make objection to yourself! He that would whip the world for manners and behaviour! _Taig:_ Dermot that is better again. He that would write and dictate to you at the one time! _Darby:_ What is that beside owning tillage, and to need no education, but to take rents into your hand? _Taig:_ I would never believe him to own an estate. _Darby:_ Why wouldn't he own it? "The biggest thing and the grandest," my mother would say when I would ask her what was he doing. _Taig:_ Ah, what could be before selling out silks and satins. There is many an estated lord couldn't reach you out a fourpenny bit. |
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