John Bull's Other Island by George Bernard Shaw
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FATHER DEMPSEY. Hwat hotel? AUNT JUDY. Indeedn you'e not goin to a hotel. You'll stay with us. I'd have put you into Larry's room, only the boy's pallyass is too short for you; but we'll make a comfortable bed for you on the sofa in the parlor. BROADBENT. You're very kind, Miss Doyle; but really I'm ashamed to give you so much trouble unnecessarily. I shan't mind the hotel in the least. FATHER DEMPSEY. Man alive! There's no hotel in Rosscullen. BROADBENT. No hotel! Why, the driver told me there was the finest hotel in Ireland here. [They regard him joylessly]. AUNT JUDY. Arra would you mind what the like of him would tell you? Sure he'd say hwatever was the least trouble to himself and the pleasantest to you, thinkin you might give him a thruppeny bit for himself or the like. BROADBENT. Perhaps there's a public house. FATHER DEMPSEY [grimly.] There's seventeen. AUNT JUDY. Ah then, how could you stay at a public house? They'd have no place to put you even if it was a right place for you to go. Come! is it the sofa you're afraid of? If it is, you can have me own bed. I can sleep with Nora. |
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