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The Shadow of the Glen and Riders to the Sea
The Shadow of the Glen and Riders to the Sea Author:John Millington Synge Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Riders to the Sea A Play In One Act. First performed at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, February 2$tA, 1904. Persons :— Maurya (an old woman) Bartley (h... more »er son) . . Cathleen (her daughter) Nora (a younger daughter) Men And Women. Honor Lavelle. W. G. Fay. Sarah Allgood. Emma Vernon. Scene.—An Island off the West of Ireland. (Cottage kitchen, with nets, oil-skins, spinning wheel, some new boards standing by the wall, etc. Cathleen, a girl of about twenty, finishes kneading cake, and puts it down in the pot-oven by the fire ; then wipes her hands, and begins to spin at the wheel. Nora, a young girl, puts her head in at the door.) Nora (in a low voice). Where is she ? Cathleen. She's lying down, God help her, and may be sleeping, if she's able. (Nora comes in softly, and takes a bundle from under her shawl.) Cathleen (spinning the wheel rapidly). What is it you have ? Nora. The young priest is after bringing them. It's a shirt and a plain stocking were got off a drowned man in Donegal. (Cathleen stops her wheel with a sudden movement, and leans out to listen.) Nora. We're to find out if it's Michael's they are, some time herself will be down looking by the sea. Cathleen. How would they be Michael's, Nora. How would he go the length of that way to the far north ? Nora. The young priest says he's known the like of it. " If it's Michael's they are," says he, " you can tell herself he's got a clean burial by the grace of God, and if they're not his, let no one say a word about them, for she'll be getting her death," says he, " with crying and lamenting." (The door which Nora half closed is blown open by a gust of wind.) Cathleen (looking out anxiously). Did you ask him would he stop Hartley going this day with the horses t...« less