PEGEEN, snapping at him.
Whisht I am saying; we'll take no fooling from your like at all. (To Christy with a honeyed voice.) And you, young fellow, you'd have a right to stop, I'm thinking, for we'd do our all and utmost to content your needs.
CHRISTY, overcome with wonder.
And I'd be safe in this place from the searching law?
MICHAEL.
You would, surely. If they're not fearing you, itself, the peelers in this place is decent, drouthy, poor fellows, wouldn't touch a cur dog and not give warning in the dead of night.
PEGEEN, very kindly and persuasively.
Let you stop a short while anyhow. Aren't you destroyed walking with your feet in bleeding blisters, and your whole skin needing washing like a Wicklow sheep.
CHRISTY, looking round with satisfaction.
It's a nice room, and if it's not humbugging me you are, I'm thinking that I'll surely stay.
JIMMY, jumps up.
Now, by the grace of God, herself will be safe
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