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Riders to the Sea by J. M. (John Millington) Synge
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destitute with no son living?

MAURYA
[In a low voice, but clearly.]

It's little the like of him knows of the sea. . . . Bartley
will be lost now, and let you call in Eamon and make me a good
coffin out of the white boards, for I won't live after them.
I've had a husband, and a husband's father, and six sons in
this house -- six fine men, though it was a hard birth I had
with every one of them and they coming to the world -- and some
of them were found and some of them were not found, but they're
gone now the lot of them. . . There were Stephen, and Shawn,
were lost in the great wind, and found after in the Bay of
Gregory of the Golden Mouth, and carried up the two of them on
the one plank, and in by that door.

[She pauses for a moment, the girls start as if they heard
something through the door that is half open behind them.]

NORA
[In a whisper.]

Did you hear that, Cathleen? Did you hear a noise in the
north-east?

CATHLEEN
[In a whisper.]

There's some one after crying out by the seashore.
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