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First though, let's take

2:32

a minute or two

2:34

to be still and

2:36

present. Put aside all

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the noisy machines vying

2:41

for your attention

2:43

with their buzzes,

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notifications and rings.

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Set yourself to

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3:01

Just now, you

3:03

need to rest.

3:05

Let go of

3:07

any tension or

3:09

anxiety in your

3:11

body and just

3:13

sit or lay

3:15

quietly. If any

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thoughts or emotions

3:19

are still moving

3:22

through your body.

3:24

remind yourself

3:27

that you don't need

3:29

to do anything about

3:31

them right now. Just

3:33

now, you need to

3:35

rest. If you have

3:38

an urgent sense that

3:40

you must do something,

3:42

know that there will

3:44

be time for that

3:46

later or tomorrow. Just

3:49

now, you need to rest.

3:54

If at any point you feel

3:56

like you're doing or thinking something

3:58

on purpose. acknowledge

4:01

it, and return to

4:04

your stillness. Now

4:06

breathe calmly and

4:08

peacefully, as I

4:11

recap her last

4:13

episode. Mrs. Make

4:16

Beneave was desperate

4:18

to buy back the

4:21

furniture she had to

4:23

pawn during her illness.

4:26

some of which held

4:28

deep sentimental value to

4:30

her. But she loathed that she had

4:32

to work for a woman like

4:34

Mrs. O'Connor without being able

4:37

to tell her what she

4:39

thought of her. She even

4:41

admitted that her policeman nephew

4:43

had been asking about her

4:45

daughter. It wasn't long till that

4:48

man did catch up with Mary

4:50

walking in the city. His

4:53

tone had lost the gentlemanly

4:55

manner which it had held

4:58

before he had seen her,

5:00

cleaning his aunt's floor.

5:02

He now seemed more

5:04

cavalier and familiar, eventually

5:06

grabbing Mary when he

5:09

thought no one would

5:11

see. Somehow she escaped

5:13

him and ran home.

5:15

Meanwhile, Mrs. Cafferty's husband

5:17

had lost some hours

5:19

at work. and their finances

5:22

were being stretched too

5:24

thin. Under the council of

5:27

Mrs. Makebelieve, she decided

5:29

to take in a lodger.

5:32

He was a young man, who was

5:34

out far more than he

5:36

was in, but his appetite

5:39

was costing Mrs. Cafity more

5:41

than ever. Rather than demand

5:44

more compensation, in

5:46

efforts to be a gracious

5:48

host, She determined to feed

5:50

him more porridge, which was

5:53

inexpensive and wholesome for breakfast,

5:55

to try to quench his

5:57

hunger. Tonight,

6:00

Mary meets this

6:02

mysterious and hungry

6:04

young lodger. So,

6:09

just lie back and

6:11

relax as I turn

6:13

to the next pages

6:15

of The Charwoman's Daughter. Chapter

6:40

27 It

6:46

was not long

6:48

until Mary and Mrs.

6:50

Cafferty's lodger met. As

6:53

he came in by the

6:55

hall door one day, Mary

6:57

was carrying upstairs a large

7:00

water bucket, the

7:02

portage of which two or

7:04

three times a day is so

7:06

heavy a strain on the

7:08

dweller in tenements. The

7:11

youth instantly seized

7:13

the bucket, and despite

7:15

her protestations and

7:17

appeals, he carried it

7:19

upstairs. He

7:21

walked a few steps

7:23

in advance of Mary,

7:25

whistling cheerfully as he

7:27

went, so she

7:29

was able to get a good view of

7:31

him. He

7:34

was so thin that he

7:36

nearly made her laugh, but

7:38

he carried the bucket, the

7:40

weight of which she had

7:42

often bowed under, with an

7:45

ease astonishing in so slight

7:47

a man, and

7:49

there was a spring in his

7:51

walk which was pleasant to see.

7:55

He laid the bucket

7:58

down outside her

8:00

room and requested seen.

8:02

her urgently to knock at his door

8:04

whenever she required more water fetched because

8:06

he would be only too

8:08

delighted to do it for

8:10

her and it was not the

8:13

slightest trouble in the world. While

8:15

he spoke he was stealing glances

8:17

at her face and Mary

8:19

was stealing glances

8:21

at his face and when they

8:24

caught one another doing this

8:26

doing this doing this doing

8:28

this doing this They both

8:30

looked hurriedly away, and the

8:32

young man departed to his

8:35

own place. But Mary was

8:37

very angry with this

8:39

young man. She had gone downstairs

8:42

in her house attire,

8:44

which was not

8:46

resplendent, and she objected

8:48

to being discovered by

8:51

any youth in raiment,

8:53

not suitable to such

8:55

an occasion. She could

8:58

not visualize herself speaking to

9:00

a man unless she was

9:02

adorned as for a festivity.

9:04

The gentlemen and ladies of

9:07

whom her mother sometimes spoke,

9:09

and of whom she had

9:11

often dreamt, were never in

9:13

their habilomones. The

9:16

gentleman frequently had

9:18

green, silken jackets,

9:20

with a foam of lace at the

9:22

wrist, and a cascade of the same

9:25

rich material. brawling upon

9:27

their breasts. And the ladies

9:30

were retired in a

9:32

magnificent scarcity of clothing.

9:34

The fundamental principle were

9:36

of, although she was

9:39

quite assured of its

9:41

righteousness, she did not

9:43

yet understand. Indeed, at

9:45

this period, Mary's interest

9:47

in dress far transcended

9:50

any interest she had

9:52

ever known before. She

9:55

knew intimately the window

9:57

contents of every costume.

10:00

shop in Grafton and

10:02

Wicklow and Dawson streets

10:05

and could follow with

10:07

intelligent amazement the apparently

10:10

trifling but exceedingly important

10:13

differences of line or

10:15

seam or flounce which

10:18

ranked one garment as

10:21

a creation and its

10:23

neighbor as a dress.

10:28

She and her mother

10:30

often discussed the gowns,

10:32

wherein the native dignity

10:35

of their souls might

10:37

be adequately comparisoned. Mrs.

10:39

Makebelieve, with a humility

10:41

which had still a

10:43

trace of anger, admitted

10:45

that the period when

10:47

she could have been

10:49

expressed in colour had

10:51

expired, and she decided

10:53

that a black silk

10:55

dress, with heavy gold

10:58

chain along the bosom.

11:00

was as much as

11:02

her soul was now

11:04

entitled to. She had

11:06

an impatience amounting to

11:08

contempt for those florid,

11:10

flamboyant souls whose outer

11:12

physical integument so grievously

11:14

misrepresented them. She thought

11:16

that after a certain

11:19

time, one should dress

11:21

the body and not

11:23

the soul. and

11:25

discovering an inseparability between

11:27

the two, she held

11:29

that the mean shrine

11:31

must hold a very

11:33

trifling deity, and that

11:35

an ill-made or time-worn

11:38

body should never dress

11:40

gloriously, under pain of

11:42

an accusation of hypocrisy

11:44

or foolishness. But for

11:46

Mary, she planned garments

11:48

with a freedom and

11:50

bravery. which astonished while

11:52

it delighted her daughter.

11:54

She combined 20 styles.

11:57

into one style of

11:59

terrifying originality. She conceived

12:01

dresses of complexity beyond

12:03

the labour of any

12:05

but a divinely inspired

12:07

needle, and others again,

12:09

whose simplicity was almost

12:11

too tenuous for human

12:14

speech. She discussed robes

12:16

whose trailing and voluminous

12:18

richness. could with difficulty

12:20

be supported by ten

12:22

strong attendants. And she

12:24

had heard of a

12:26

dress the fabric whereof

12:28

was of such gossamer

12:30

and ethereal insubstancy that

12:33

it might be packed

12:35

into a walnut more

12:37

conveniently than an ordinary

12:39

dress could be impressed

12:41

into a portmanteau. Mary's

12:43

exclamations of delight and

12:45

longing. ranged from every

12:47

possible dress to every

12:49

impossible one. And then

12:52

Mrs. Makebelieve reviewed all

12:54

the dresses she had

12:56

worn from the age

12:58

of three to the

13:00

present, including wedding and

13:02

morning dresses, those of

13:04

which were worn at

13:06

picnics and dancers, and

13:09

for travelling, with an

13:11

occasional divergence which comprehended

13:13

the clothing of her

13:15

friends and her enemies.

13:17

during the like period.

13:19

She explained the basic

13:21

principles of dress to

13:23

her daughter, showing that

13:25

in this art, as

13:28

in all else, order

13:30

cannot be dispensed with.

13:32

There were things a

13:34

tall person might wear,

13:36

but which a short

13:38

person might not, and

13:40

the draperies which adorned

13:42

a portly lady were

13:44

but pitiable weeds. when

13:47

trailed by her attenuated

13:49

sister. The effect of

13:51

long thin lines in

13:53

fabric will make a

13:55

short woman appear tall,

13:57

while round, thick lines

13:59

can reduce the altitude

14:01

of people whose height

14:04

is a trouble to

14:06

be combated. She illustrated

14:08

the usage of large

14:10

and small cheques and

14:12

plaids and all the

14:14

maisy interweaving of other

14:16

cloths, and she elucidated

14:18

the mystery of colour.

14:20

tone, half tone, light

14:23

and shade, so interestingly

14:25

that Mary could scarcely

14:27

hear enough of her

14:29

law. She was acquainted

14:31

with the colours which

14:33

a dark person may

14:35

wear, and those which

14:37

are suitable to a

14:39

fair person, and the

14:42

shades proper to be

14:44

used by the wide

14:46

class, ranging between these

14:48

extremes she also with

14:50

a special provision for

14:52

red-haired and sandy folk,

14:54

and those who have

14:56

no complexion at all.

14:59

Certain laws which she

15:01

formulated were cherished by

15:03

her daughter as a

15:05

racular utterances, that one

15:07

should match one's eyes

15:09

in the house and

15:11

one's hair in the

15:13

street was one. That

15:15

one's hat and gloves

15:18

and shoes. were of

15:20

vastly more importance than

15:22

all the rest of

15:24

one's clothing, was another.

15:26

That one's hair and

15:28

stockings should tone as

15:30

neatly as possible was

15:32

a third. Following these

15:34

rules she assured her

15:37

daughter a woman could

15:39

never be other than

15:41

well-dressed, and all of

15:43

these things Mary learned

15:45

by heart, and asked

15:47

her mother to tell

15:49

her more, which her

15:51

mother... was quite able

15:54

and willing to do.

16:01

Chapter 8 When

16:03

the sexual instinct

16:06

is aroused, men

16:08

and dogs and

16:10

frogs and beetles

16:12

and such other

16:14

creatures, as are

16:17

inside or outside

16:19

of this catalogue,

16:21

a very tenacious

16:23

in the pursuit

16:26

of their ambition,

16:29

We can seldom get

16:31

away from that which

16:33

attracts or repels us.

16:35

Love and hate are

16:38

equally magnetic and compelling,

16:40

and each, being super

16:42

normal, drags us willingly

16:44

or woefully in its

16:47

wake, until at last

16:49

our blind persistency is

16:51

either rooted or appeased.

16:53

And we advance our

16:56

lords or nash our

16:58

teeth. as the occasion

17:00

bids us. There is

17:02

no tragedy more woeful

17:04

than the victory of

17:07

hate, nor any attainment

17:09

so hopelessly barren as

17:11

the sterility of that

17:13

achievement. For hate is

17:16

finality, and finality is

17:18

the greatest evil which

17:20

can happen in a

17:22

world of movement. Love

17:25

is an inaugurator. displaying

17:27

his banners on captured

17:29

peaks and pressing forever

17:31

to a new and

17:34

more gracious enterprise. But

17:36

the victories of hate

17:38

are gained in a

17:40

ditch from where there

17:43

is no horizon visible,

17:45

and whence there does

17:47

not go even one

17:49

limping courier. After

17:54

Mary fled from the embrace

17:56

of the great policeman, he

17:59

came to think more. closely

18:01

of her than he had

18:04

been used, but her image

18:06

was thrown now in anger.

18:09

She came to him like

18:11

a dull brightness, where from

18:14

desolate thunder might roll at

18:16

an instant. Indeed she began

18:19

to obsess him so that

18:21

not even the ministrations of

18:23

his aunt, nor the obeisance

18:26

of that pleasant girl, the

18:28

name of whose boots was

18:31

Ferrebel. could give him any

18:33

comfort or wean him from

18:36

any contemplation which sprawled gloomily

18:38

between him and his duties

18:41

to the traffic. If he

18:43

had not discovered the lowliness

18:45

of her quality, his course

18:48

might have been simple and

18:50

straightforward. The issue in such

18:53

an event would have narrowed

18:55

to every man's poser. Whether

18:58

he should marry this girl

19:00

or that girl, but the

19:03

arithmetic whereby such matters are

19:05

elucidated, would at the last

19:07

have eased his perplexity, and

19:10

the path indicated could have

19:12

been followed with the fullest

19:15

freedom on his part, and

19:17

without any disaster to his

19:20

self-love. If whichever way his

19:22

inclination wavered, there was any

19:25

pang of regret, and there

19:27

was bound to be. Such

19:29

a feeling would be ultimately

19:32

waived by his reason, or

19:34

retained, as a memorial which

19:37

had a gratifying savour. But

19:39

the knowledge of Mary's social

19:42

inferiority complicated matters, for although

19:44

this automatically put her out

19:47

of the question as his

19:49

wife, Her subsequent ill treatment

19:51

of himself had injected a

19:54

virus to his blood, which

19:56

was one half a... for

19:59

her body, and one half

20:01

a frenzy for vengeance. He

20:04

could have let her go

20:06

easily enough if she had

20:09

not first let him go,

20:11

for he read dismissal in

20:13

her action and resented it

20:16

as a trespass on his

20:18

own, just prerogative. He had

20:21

but to stretch out his

20:23

hand. and she would have

20:26

dropped to it as tamely

20:28

as a kitten, whereas now

20:31

she eluded his hand, would

20:33

indeed have nothing to do

20:35

with it, and this could

20:38

not be forgiven. He would

20:40

gladly have beaten her into

20:43

submission, for what right has

20:45

a slip of a girl

20:48

to withstand the advances of

20:50

a man and a policeman.

20:53

That is a crooked spirit.

20:55

demanding to be straightened with

20:57

a truncheon. But as we

21:00

cannot decently or even peaceably

21:02

beat a girl until she

21:05

is married to us, he

21:07

had to relinquish that idea.

21:10

He would have dismissed her

21:12

from his mind with the

21:15

contempt she deserved but alas.

21:17

He could not. She clung

21:19

there like a burr, not

21:22

to be dislodged saving by

21:24

possession or a beating. two

21:27

shuddering alternatives, for she had

21:29

become detestably dear to him.

21:32

His senses and his self-esteem

21:34

conspired to heave her to

21:37

a pedestal where his eyes

21:39

strained upwards in bewilderment, that

21:41

she who was below him

21:44

could be above him. This

21:46

was astounding. She must be

21:49

pulled from her eminence and

21:51

stamped back to her native

21:54

depths. by his own indignant

21:56

hooves. Thence she might be

21:59

gloriously lifted again with a

22:01

calm a calm, binnignant, masculine

22:03

hand, shedding pardons and favours,

22:06

and perhaps a mollifying unguant

22:08

for her bruises. Bruises. A

22:11

knee, an elbow, there were

22:13

nothing. Little damages which to

22:16

kiss was to make well

22:18

again. Will not women cherish

22:21

a bruise that it may

22:23

be medicineed by a male

22:25

kiss? Nature

22:28

and precedent have both sworn

22:30

to it, but she was

22:33

out of reach. His hand,

22:35

high flung as it might

22:37

be, could not get to

22:40

her. He went furiously to

22:42

the Phoenix Park, to St.

22:45

Stephen's Green, to outlying leafy

22:47

spots and sheltered lanes, but

22:50

she was in none of

22:52

these places. He even proud

22:55

about the neighborhood of her

22:57

home. and could not meet

23:00

her. Once he had seen

23:02

Mary as she came along

23:05

the road and he drew

23:07

back into a doorway. A

23:09

young man was marching by

23:12

her side. A young man

23:14

who gabbled without ceasing, and

23:17

to whom Mary chattered again

23:19

with an equal volatility. As

23:22

they passed, Mary caught sight

23:24

of him, and her face

23:27

went flaming. She caught her

23:29

companion's arm and they hurried

23:32

down the road at a

23:34

great pace. She had never

23:37

chattered to him. Always he

23:39

had done the talking and

23:41

she had been an obedient,

23:44

grateful listener. Nor did he

23:46

quarrel with her silence. But

23:49

her reserve shocked him. It

23:51

was a pretense, worse a

23:54

lie. A masked and hooded

23:56

falsehood. She had surrendered to

23:59

him willingly. and yet drew

24:01

about her protective armour of

24:04

reserve, wherein she skunked, immune,

24:06

to the arms which were

24:09

lawfully victorious. Is there then

24:11

no loot for a conqueror?

24:13

We demand the keys of

24:16

the city walls, an unrestricted

24:18

entry, or our tortures shall

24:21

blaze again. This chattering Mary

24:23

was a girl. whom he

24:26

had never caught sight of

24:28

at all. She had been

24:31

hiding from him, even in

24:33

his presence. In every aspect,

24:36

she was in anger. But

24:38

she could talk to the

24:41

fellow with her, a skinny

24:43

whipper-snapper, whom the breath of

24:45

a man could shred into

24:48

a remote, eyeless vacuity. Was

24:50

this man another insult? Did

24:53

she not even wait to

24:55

bury her dead? Pah! She

24:58

was not value for his

25:00

thought. A girl so lightly

25:03

facile might be blown from

25:05

here to there, and she

25:08

would scarcely notice the difference.

25:10

Here and there were the

25:13

same places to her, and

25:15

him and him were the

25:17

same person. A girl of

25:20

that type comes to a

25:22

bad end. He had seen

25:25

it often. the type and

25:27

the end, and never separate.

25:30

Can one not prophecy from

25:32

facts? He saw a slut

25:35

in a slum, a drab

25:37

hovering by a dark entry,

25:40

and the vision cheered him

25:42

mightily for one glowing minute,

25:45

and left him unoccupied for

25:47

the next, into which she

25:50

thronged with the flutter of

25:52

wings. and the sound of

25:54

a great mocking. His

26:00

aunt tracked his brows

26:02

back to the responsible

26:05

duties of his employment

26:07

and commiserated with him,

26:09

and made a lamentation

26:11

about matters with which

26:13

he never had been

26:16

occupied, so that the

26:18

last tag of his

26:20

good manners departed from

26:22

him, and he damned

26:24

her unswervingly into consternation.

26:27

That other pleasant girl,

26:29

whose sweetness he had

26:31

not so much tasted

26:33

as sampled, had taken

26:36

to brooding in his

26:38

presence. She sometimes drooped

26:40

an eye upon him

26:42

like a question. Let

26:44

her look out, or

26:47

maybe he'd blaze into

26:49

her teeth. How menaced

26:51

down her throat until

26:53

she swooned. Someone should

26:55

yield to him a

26:58

visible and tangible agony

27:00

to balance his. Does

27:02

law probe no deeper

27:04

than the pillage of

27:06

a watch? Can one

27:09

filth your self-respect and

27:11

escape free? Shall not

27:13

our souls also sue

27:15

for damages against its

27:18

aggressor? Some person, rich

27:20

enough, must pay for

27:22

his lacerations, or there

27:24

was less justice in

27:26

heaven than in the

27:29

police courts. And it

27:31

might be that girl's

27:33

lot to expiate the

27:35

sins of Mary. It

27:37

would be a pleasure

27:40

if a sour one.

27:42

to make somebody wriggle

27:44

as he had, and

27:46

somebody should wriggle. Of

27:48

that, he was blackly

27:51

determined. Chapter 29 And

27:53

it was not through

27:55

the machinations of either

27:57

that this had happened.

28:00

Ever since Mrs. Meg believed

28:02

had heard of that young

28:04

man's appetite and the miseries

28:06

through which he had to

28:09

follow it, she had been

28:11

deeply concerned on his behalf.

28:13

She declined to believe that the

28:15

boy ever got sufficient

28:17

to eat, and she enlarged

28:20

her daughter on the seriousness

28:22

of this privation to a

28:24

young man. Disabilities, such as

28:26

a young girl could

28:29

not comprehend. followed in

28:31

the train of insufficient

28:33

nourishment. Mrs. Caffetty

28:36

was her friend, and

28:38

was, moreover, a good, decent

28:41

woman, against whom

28:43

the tongue of rumor might

28:45

wag in vain. But Mrs.

28:47

Caffetty was the mother

28:50

of six children, and

28:52

her natural kindliness

28:55

dared not expand to

28:57

their detriment. the fact

29:00

of her husband being out

29:02

of work tended to still

29:05

further circumscribe the limits

29:07

of her generosity. She

29:09

divined a lean pot in

29:11

the cavity household, and she

29:13

saw the young man getting

29:15

only as much food as

29:17

Mrs. cavity dead to give him,

29:20

so that the pangs of his

29:22

hunger almost gnawed at her own

29:24

vitals. Under

29:28

these circumstances, she had

29:30

sought for an opportunity

29:32

to become better acquainted

29:34

with him and had

29:36

very easily succeeded. So

29:38

when Mary found him

29:40

seated on their bed and

29:43

eating violently of their half loaf,

29:45

if she was astonished at

29:47

first, she was also very

29:49

glad. Her mother watched the

29:51

demolition of their food with

29:54

a calm happiness. For although

29:56

the amount she could contribute

29:58

was small, every little helped,

30:01

and not alone were

30:03

his wants assisted, but

30:05

her friend Miss Cafity

30:07

and her children were

30:09

also aided by this

30:11

dulling of an appetite

30:13

which might have endangered

30:15

their household peace. The

30:17

young man repaid their

30:19

hospitality by an easy

30:21

generosity of speech, covering

30:23

affairs which neither Mrs.

30:25

Make believe nor her

30:27

daughter had many opportunities

30:29

for studying. He spoke

30:31

of those very interesting

30:33

matters with which a

30:35

young man is concerned,

30:37

and his speculations on

30:39

various subjects, while often

30:41

quite ignorant, were sufficiently

30:43

vivid to be interesting,

30:45

and were wrong in

30:47

a boyish fashion which

30:49

was not unpleasant. He

30:51

was very argumentative. but

30:53

was still open to

30:55

reason. Therefore, Mrs. Makebelieve

30:58

had opportunities for discussion

31:00

which was seldom granted

31:02

to her. Insensibly, she

31:04

adopted the position of

31:06

guide, philosopher and friend

31:08

to him. And Mary

31:10

also found new interests

31:12

in speech, for although

31:14

the young man bought

31:16

very differently from her,

31:18

he did think upon

31:20

her own plane. and

31:22

the things which secretly

31:24

engrossed him, or also

31:26

the things wherewith she

31:28

was deeply preoccupied. A

31:30

community of ignorances maybe

31:32

is binding as a

31:34

community of interests. We

31:36

have a dull suspicion

31:38

of that him or

31:40

her, who knows more

31:42

than we do. But

31:44

the person who is

31:46

prepared to go out

31:48

adventuring with us. with

31:50

surmise only for a

31:52

chart and enjoyment for

31:54

a guide. May use

31:56

our hand as his

31:58

own. and their pockets

32:00

as his treasury. As

32:02

the young man had

32:05

no more shyness than

32:07

a cab, it soon

32:09

fell out that he

32:11

and Mary took their

32:13

evening walks together. He

32:15

was a clerk in

32:17

a large retail establishment

32:19

and had many things

32:21

to tell Mary, which

32:23

were of great interest

32:25

to both of them.

32:28

For in his place of

32:31

business, he had both friends

32:33

and enemies of whom he

32:35

was able to speak with

32:38

the fluency which was their

32:40

due. Mary knew, for instance,

32:43

that the chief was bald

32:45

but decent. She could not

32:48

believe that the connection was

32:50

natural, and that the second

32:52

in command had neither virtues

32:55

nor whiskers. She saw him

32:57

as a codfish. with a

33:00

malignant eye. He epitomised the

33:02

vices which belonged in detail

33:04

to the world but were

33:07

peculiar to himself in bulk.

33:09

He must be hairy in

33:12

that event. Language, even the

33:14

young man's, could not describe

33:17

him adequately. He ate boys

33:19

for breakfast and girls for

33:21

tea. With this person... The

33:24

young man was in eternal

33:26

conflict, a bear with little

33:29

ears and big teeth. Not

33:31

open conflict, but that would

33:34

have meant instant dismissal, not

33:36

hairy at all, a long,

33:38

slimy eel, with a lot

33:41

of sense, but a veiled,

33:43

unremitting warfare which occupied all

33:46

their spare attention. The young

33:48

man knew for an actual

33:51

fact. that someday he would

33:53

be compelled to hit that

33:55

chap. And it would be

33:58

a... She extolled these because

34:00

his ability to hit was

34:03

startling. He told Mary of

34:05

the evil results which had

34:08

followed some of his blows,

34:10

and Mary's incredulity was only

34:12

heightened by display of the

34:15

young man's muscles. She extolled

34:17

these because she thought it

34:20

was her duty to do

34:22

so, but preserved some doubts

34:25

of their unique destructiveness. Once,

34:28

she asked him, could

34:30

he fight a policeman?

34:32

And he assured her

34:34

that policemen are not

34:36

able to fight at

34:38

all singly, but only

34:40

in squads, when their

34:42

warfare is callous and

34:44

ugly, and conducted mainly

34:46

with their boots, so

34:48

that decent people have

34:50

no respect for their

34:52

fighting qualities or their

34:55

private characters. He assured

34:57

her that not only

34:59

could he fight policemen.

35:01

but he could also

35:03

tyrannize over the seed,

35:05

breed, and generation of

35:07

such a one. And

35:09

moreover, he could accomplish

35:11

this without real exertion.

35:13

Against all policemen and

35:15

soldiers, the young man

35:17

professed an eager hostility,

35:19

and with these bad

35:21

people he included landlords

35:23

and many employers of

35:25

labour of labour. His

35:28

denunciation of these folks might

35:30

be tracked back to the

35:33

belief that none of them

35:35

treated one fairly. A policeman,

35:37

he averred, would arrest a

35:40

man for next door to

35:42

nothing, and any resistance offered

35:44

to their spleen rendered the

35:47

unfortunate prisoner liable to be

35:49

manhandled in his cell until

35:51

their outraged dignity was appeased.

35:55

The three capital crimes

35:57

upon which a man

35:59

is liable to arrest

36:01

are for being drunk

36:03

or disorderly or for

36:05

refusing to fight and

36:07

to these perils a

36:09

young man is peculiarly

36:12

susceptible and is to

36:14

that extent interested in

36:16

the force and critical

36:18

of their behavior. The

36:20

sight of a soldier

36:22

annoyed him for he

36:24

saw a conqueror. Trampling

36:26

vain gloriously through the

36:28

capital of his country.

36:30

and the inability of

36:32

his land to eject

36:34

the brag-art astonished and

36:36

mortified him. Landlords had

36:38

no boughs of compassion.

36:40

There was no kindliness

36:42

of heart among them,

36:44

nor any wish to

36:46

assist those whose whole

36:48

existence was engaged on

36:50

their behalf. He saw

36:52

them as lazy, unproductive

36:54

gluttons who cried forever,

36:56

give, give, give, and

36:59

who gave nothing in

37:01

return but an increased

37:03

insolent tyranny. Many employers

37:05

came into the same

37:07

black category. They were

37:09

people who had disowned

37:11

all duty to humanity

37:13

and saw in themselves

37:15

the beginning and end

37:17

of all things. They

37:19

gratified their acquisitiveness, not

37:21

in order that they

37:23

might become benefactors of

37:25

their kind, the only

37:27

righteous freedom of which

37:29

we know. but merely

37:31

to indulge a petty

37:33

exercise of power and

37:35

to attain that approval

37:37

which is granted to

37:39

wealth, and the giving

37:41

of which is the

37:43

great foolishness of mankind.

37:46

These people used their

37:48

helpers and threw them

37:50

away. They exploited and

37:52

bought and sold their

37:54

fellow men, while their

37:56

arrogant self-assurance. and the

37:58

monstrous power which they

38:00

had gathered. their security,

38:02

shocked him like a

38:04

thing unbelievable in spite

38:06

of its reality. That

38:08

such things could be

38:10

fretted him into clamor.

38:12

He wanted to point

38:14

them out to all

38:16

people. He saw his

38:18

neighbor's ears clogged and

38:20

he was prepared to

38:22

die howling if only

38:24

he could pierce those

38:26

encrusted arteries. that

38:29

what was so simple

38:31

to him should not

38:33

be understood by everybody.

38:35

He could see plainly,

38:37

and others could not,

38:40

although their eyes looked

38:42

straightly forward and veritably

38:44

rolled with intent and

38:46

consciousness. Did their eyes

38:48

and ears and brains

38:50

act differently to his?

38:53

Or was he a

38:55

singular monster, cursed from

38:57

his? At

39:01

times he was prepared to

39:03

let humanity and Ireland go

39:05

to the devil for their

39:08

own way. He being well

39:10

assured that without him they

39:12

were bound quickly for deep

39:14

addition. A violent he sometimes

39:17

spoke with a fervour of

39:19

passion which would be outrageous

39:21

if addressed to a woman.

39:24

Surely he saw her as

39:26

a woman, queenly and distressed

39:28

and very proud. He

39:31

was physically anguished for

39:33

her, and the man

39:35

who loved her was

39:37

the very brother of

39:39

his bones. There were

39:42

some words to the

39:44

effect of which were

39:46

almost hypnotic on him.

39:48

The Isle of the

39:50

Blessed, the Little Dark

39:52

Rose, the poor old

39:54

woman, and Caitlin, the

39:56

Daughter of Hollihan. The

39:58

mere repetition of these

40:00

phrases lifted. did him

40:02

to an ecstasy. They

40:04

had hidden magical meanings,

40:06

which pricked deeply to

40:08

his heartstrings, and thrilled

40:10

him to a tempest

40:12

of pity and love.

40:14

He yearned to do

40:16

deeds of valour, violent,

40:18

grandiose feats which would

40:21

redound to her credit,

40:23

and make the name

40:25

of Irishmen synonymous with

40:27

either greatness with either

40:29

greatness with either greatness

40:31

with either greatness. or

40:33

singularity. For as yet,

40:35

the distinction between these

40:37

words was no more

40:39

clear to him, and

40:41

it is to any

40:43

other young man who

40:45

reads violence as heroism

40:47

and eccentricity as genius.

40:49

Of England, he spoke

40:51

with something like stupor

40:53

faction. As a child,

40:55

cowering in a dark

40:57

wood, tells of the

41:00

ogre. who has slain

41:02

his father and carried

41:04

his mother away to

41:06

a drear captivity in

41:08

his castle built of

41:10

bones. So he spoke

41:12

of England. He saw

41:14

an Englishman stalking hideously

41:16

forward, with a princess

41:18

tucked under each arm,

41:20

while their brothers and

41:22

their knights were netted

41:24

an enchantment, and slept,

41:26

heedless of the wrongs

41:28

done to their ladies.

41:30

and of the defacement

41:32

of their shields. Alas,

41:34

alas, and alas, for

41:37

the once proud people

41:39

of Bamba. You

48:27

You You