Riders to the Sea by J. M. (John Millington) Synge
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and it will do.
[Nora brings it to her and they compare the flannel.] CATHLEEN It's the same stuff, Nora; but if it is itself aren't there great rolls of it in the shops of Galway, and isn't it many another man may have a shirt of it as well as Michael himself? NORA [Who has taken up the stocking and counted the stitches, crying out.] It's Michael, Cathleen, it's Michael; God spare his soul, and what will herself say when she hears this story, and Bartley on the sea? CATHLEEN [Taking the stocking.] It's a plain stocking. NORA It's the second one of the third pair I knitted, and I put up three score stitches, and I dropped four of them. CATHLEEN [Counts the stitches.] It's that number is in it [crying out.] Ah, Nora, isn't it a |
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