Nora Monologue from In the Shadow of the Glen

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

female · melancholic · 54 sec

((With a half-smile.)) Far down, stranger? (TRAMP: A piece only.) Maybe, if you’re not easy afeard, you’ld stay here a short while alone with himself. (TRAMP: I would surely. A man that’s dead can do no hurt.) ((Speaking with a sort of constraint.)) I’m going a little back to the west, stranger, for himself would go there one night and another and whistle at that place, and then the young man you’re after seeing—a kind of a farmer has come up from the sea to live in a cottage beyond—would walk round to see if there was a thing we’ld have to be done, and I’m wanting him this night, the way he can go down into the glen when the sun goes up and tell the people that himself is dead.

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