RIDERS TO THE SEA
him then and the dark word will be broken, and you can say “God speed you,” the way he’ll be easy in his mind.
MAURYA
Taking the bread.
Will I be in it as soon as himself?
CATHLEEN
If you go now quickly.
MAURYA
Standing up unsteadily.
It’s hard set I am to walk.
CATHLEEN
Looking at her anxiously.
Give her the stick, Nora, or maybe she’ll slip on the big stones.
NORA
What stick?
CATHLEEN
The stick Michael brought from Connemara.
MAURYA.
Taking a stick Nora gives her.
In the big world the old people do be leaving things after them for their sons and
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