Dan Monologue from In the Shadow of the Glen

From In the Shadow of the Glen by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

male · anguished · 44 sec

It is not, stranger, but she won’t be coming near me at all, and it’s not long now I’ll be letting on, for I’ve a cramp in my back, and my hip’s asleep on me, and there’s been the devil’s own fly itching my nose. It’s near dead I was wanting to sneeze, and you blathering about the rain, and Darcy (bitterly)—the devil choke him—and the towering church. ((Crying out impatiently.)) Give me that whisky. Would you have herself come back before I taste a drop at all? ((Tramp gives him the glass.))

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