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What's the use of having anything packed and ready when he didn't come? ] No wonder this unfortunate country is as it is, for you can't depend upon the word of a single individual in it. I suppose he was too damn lazy to get up; he wanted the streets to be well aired first. * DAVOREN. Ah me! * SEUMAS. That's from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound. I could never agree with Shelley, not that there's anything to be said against him as a poet - as a poet - but . . DAVOREN. He flung a few stones through stained-glass windows.
They made Balor of the Evil Eye* King of Ireland, an' so signs on it there's neither conscience nor honesty from one end ofthe country to the other. Well, I hope he'll have a happy day in Knocksedan. ] Who's that? [Another knock. Irritably] Who's that; who's there? DAVOREN [more irritably]. Halt and give the countersign- damn it, man, can't you go and see? goes over and opens the door. tis evident that he has no love for SEUMAS, who denies him the deference he believes is due from a tenant to a landlord.
Why, the ambushes of course; I'm all of a tremble when I hear a shot go off, an' what must it be in the middle of the fuin'? DAVOREN [delighted at MINNIE's obvious admiration; leaning back in his chair, and lighting a cigarette with placid affectation]. I'll admit one does be a little nervous at first, but a fellow gets used to it after a bit, till, at last, a gunman throws a bomb as carelessly as a schoolboy throws a snowball. MINNIE ffervently]. I wish it was all over, all the same. [Suddenly, with a tremor in her voice] You'll take care of yourself, won't you, won't you, Donal- I mean, Mr Davoren?