New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory
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to go spend a day or maybe two days out of this--I to go on the
train----. _Miss Joyce: (At door, coming in backwards.)_ Go back now, go back! Don't be following after me in through the door! Is Mr. Halvey there? Don't let her come following me, Mr. Halvey! _Hyacinth Halvey:_ Who is it is in it? _(Sound of discordant singing outside.)_ _Miss Joyce:_ Cracked Mary it is, that is after coming back this day from the asylum. _Hyacinth Halvey:_ I never saw her, I think. _Shawn Early:_ The creature, she was light this long while and not good in the head, and at the last lunacy came on her and she was tied and bound. Sometimes singing and dancing she does be, and sometimes troublesome. _Miss Joyce:_ They had a right to keep her spancelled in the asylum. She would begrudge any respectable person to be walking the street. She'd hoot you, she'd shout you, she'd clap her hands at you. She is a blight in the town. _Hyacinth Halvey:_ There is a lad along with her. _Shawn Early:_ It is Davideen, her brother, that is innocent. He was left rambling from place to place the time she was put within |
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