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第19章 ACT III(4)

LARRY.I'm afraid my ideas would not be popular enough.

CORNELIUS.I don't know that.Do you,Barney?

DORAN.There's too much blatherumskite in Irish politics a dale too much.

LARRY.But what about your present member?Is he going to retire?

CORNELIUS.No:I don't know that he is.

LARRY [interrogatively].Well?then?

MATTHEW [breaking out with surly bitterness].We've had enough of his foolish talk agen lanlords.Hwat call has he to talk about the lan,that never was outside of a city office in his life?

CORNELIUS.We're tired of him.He doesn't know hwere to stop.

Every man can't own land;and some men must own it to employ them.It was all very well when solid men like Doran and me and Mat were kep from ownin land.But hwat man in his senses ever wanted to give land to Patsy Farrll an dhe like o him?

BROADBENT.But surely Irish landlordism was accountable for what Mr Haffigan suffered.

MATTHEW.Never mind hwat I suffered.I know what I suffered adhout you tellin me.But did I ever ask for more dhan the farm Imade wid me own hans:tell me that,Corny Doyle,and you that knows.Was I fit for the responsibility or was I not?[Snarling angrily at Cornelius]Am I to be compared to Patsy Farrll,that doesn't harly know his right hand from his left?What did he ever suffer,I'd like to know?

CORNELIUS.That's just what I say.I wasn't comparin you to your disadvantage.

MATTHEW [implacable].Then hwat did you mane be talkin about givin him lan?

DORAN.Aisy,Mat,aisy.You're like a bear with a sore back.

MATTHEW [trembling with rage].An who are you,to offer to taitch me manners?

FATHER DEMPSEY [admonitorily].Now,now,now,Mat none o dhat.

How often have I told you you're too ready to take offence where none is meant?You don't understand:Corny Doyle is saying just what you want to have said.[To Cornelius]Go on,Mr Doyle;and never mind him.

MATTHEW [rising].Well,if me lan is to be given to Patsy and his like,I'm goin oura dhis.I--DORAN [with violent impatience]Arra who's goin to give your lan to Patsy,yowl fool ye?

FATHER DEMPSEY.Aisy,Barney,aisy.[Sternly,to Mat]I told you,Matthew Haffigan,that Corny Doyle was sayin nothin against you.

I'm sorry your priest's word is not good enough for you.I'll go,sooner than stay to make you commit a sin against the Church.

Good morning,gentlemen.[He rises.They all rise,except Broadbent].

DORAN [to Mat].There!Sarve you dam well right,you cantankerous oul noodle.

MATTHEW [appalled].Don't say dhat,Fadher Dempsey.I never had a thought agen you or the Holy Church.I know I'm a bit hasty when I think about the lan.I ax your pardn for it.

FATHER DEMPSEY [resuming his seat with dignified reserve].Very well:I'll overlook it this time.[He sits down.The others sit down,except Matthew.Father Dempsey,about to ask Corny to proceed,remembers Matthew and turns to him,giving him just a crumb of graciousness].Sit down,Mat.[Matthew,crushed,sits down in disgrace,and is silent,his eyes shifting piteously from one speaker to another in an intensely mistrustful effort to understand them].Go on,Mr Doyle.We can make allowances.Go on.

CORNELIUS.Well,you see how it is,Larry.Round about here,we've got the land at last;and we want no more Goverment meddlin.We want a new class o man in parliament:one dhat knows dhat the farmer's the real backbone o the country,n doesn't care a snap of his fingers for the shoutn o the riff-raff in the towns,or for the foolishness of the laborers.

DORAN.Aye;an dhat can afford to live in London and pay his own way until Home Rule comes,instead o wantin subscriptions and the like.

FATHER DEMPSEY.Yes:that's a good point,Barney.When too much money goes to politics,it's the Church that has to starve for it.A member of parliament ought to be a help to the Church instead of a burden on it.

LARRY.Here's a chance for you,Tom.What do you say?

BROADBENT [deprecatory,but important and smiling].Oh,I have no claim whatever to the seat.Besides,I'm a Saxon.

DORAN.A hwat?

BROADBENT.A Saxon.An Englishman.

DORAN.An Englishman.Bedad I never heard it called dhat before.

MATTHEW [cunningly].If I might make so bould,Fadher,I wouldn't say but an English Prodestn mightn't have a more indepindent mind about the lan,an be less afeerd to spake out about it,dhan an Irish Catholic.

CORNELIUS.But sure Larry's as good as English:aren't you,Larry?

LARRY.You may put me out of your head,father,once for all.

CORNELIUS.Arra why?

LARRY.I have strong opinions which wouldn't suit you.

DORAN [rallying him blatantly].Is it still Larry the bould Fenian?

LARRY.No:the bold Fenian is now an older and possibly foolisher man.

CORNELIUS.Hwat does it matter to us hwat your opinions are?You know that your father's bought his farm,just the same as Mat here n Barney's mill.All we ask now is to be let alone.You've nothin against that,have you?

LARRY.Certainly I have.I don't believe in letting anybody or anything alone.

CORNELIUS [losing his temper].Arra what d'ye mean,you young fool?Here I've got you the offer of a good seat in parliament;n you think yourself mighty smart to stand there and talk foolishness to me.Will you take it or leave it?

LARRY.Very well:I'll take it with pleasure if you'll give it to me.

CORNELIUS [subsiding sulkily].Well,why couldn't you say so at once?It's a good job you've made up your mind at last.

DORAN [suspiciously].Stop a bit,stop a bit.

MATTHEW [writhing between his dissatisfaction and his fear of the priest].It's not because he's your son that he's to get the sate.Fadher Dempsey:wouldn't you think well to ask him what he manes about the lan?

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