第 10 节
作者:闪啊闪      更新:2022-11-18 17:12      字数:4799
  cure her this day; or do anything that you will。
  SAINT  'to People。'  Let him be。 。 。 。 。 Let him be if his
  sense is come to him at all。
  MARTIN DOUL  'shakes himself loose; feels for Mary Doul;
  sinking his voice to a plausible whine。'  You may cure herself;
  surely; holy father; I wouldn't stop you at all  and it's great
  joy she'll have looking on your face  but let you cure myself
  along with her; the way I'll see when it's lies she's telling;
  and be looking out day and night upon the holy men of God。
  'He kneels down a little before Mary Doul。'
  SAINT  'speaking half to the People。'  Men who are dark a
  long while and thinking over queer thoughts in their heads;
  aren't the like of simple men; who do be working every day; and
  praying; and living like ourselves; so if he has found a right
  mind at the last minute itself; I'll cure him; if the Lord will;
  and not be thinking of the hard; foolish words he's after saying
  this day to us all。
  MARTIN DOUL  'listening eagerly。'  I'm waiting now; holy
  father。
  SAINT  'with can in his hand; close to Martin Doul。'  With
  the power of the water from the grave of the four beauties of
  God; with the power of this water; I'm saying; that I put upon
  your eyes 。 'He raises can。'
  MARTIN DOUL  'with a sudden movement strikes the can from the
  Saint's hand and sends it rocketing across stage。  He stands up;
  People murmur loudly。'   If I'm a poor dark sinner I've sharp
  ears; God help me; and have left you with a big head on you and
  it's well I heard the little splash of the water you had there in
  the can。  Go on now; holy father; for if you're a fine Saint
  itself; it's more sense is in a blind man; and more power maybe
  than you're thinking at all。  Let you walk on now with your worn
  feet; and your welted knees; and your fasting; holy ways a thin
  pitiful arm。  (The Saint looks at him for a moment severely; then
  turns away and picks up his can。  He pulls Mary Doul up。)  For if
  it's a right some of you have to be working and sweating the like
  of Timmy the smith; and a right some of you have to be fasting
  and praying and talking holy talk the like of yourself; I'm
  thinking it's a good right ourselves have to be sitting blind;
  hearing a soft wind turning round the little leaves of the spring
  and feeling the sun; and we not tormenting our souls with the
  sight of the gray days; and the holy men; and the dirty feet is
  trampling the world。
  'He gropes towards his stone with Mary Doul。'
  MAT SIMON。  It'd be an unlucky fearful thing; I'm thinking; to
  have the like of that man living near us at all in the townland
  of Grianan。  Wouldn't he bring down a curse upon us; holy father;
  from the heavens of God?
  SAINT  'tying his girdle。'  God has great mercy; but great
  wrath for them that sin。
  THE PEOPLE。  Go on now; Martin Doul。  Go on from this place。  Let
  you not be bringing great storms or droughts on us maybe from the
  power of the Lord。 'Some of them throw things at him。'
  MARTIN DOUL  'turning round defiantly and picking up a stone。'
  Keep off now; the yelping lot of you; or it's more than one
  maybe will get a bloody head on him with the pitch of my stone。
  Keep off now; and let you not be afeard; for we're going on the
  two of us to the towns of the south; where the people will have
  kind voices maybe; and we won't know their bad looks or their
  villainy at all。  (He takes Mary Doul's hand again。)  Come along
  now and we'll be walking to the south; for we've seen too much of
  everyone in this place; and it's small joy we'd have living near
  them; or hearing the lies they do be telling from the gray of
  dawn till the night。
  MARY DOUL  'despondingly。'  That's the truth; surely; and
  we'd have a right to be gone; if it's a long way itself; as I've
  heard them say; where you do have to be walking with a slough of
  wet on the one side and a slough of wet on the other; and you
  going a stony path with a north wind blowing behind。 'They go
  out。'
  TIMMY。  There's a power of deep rivers with floods in them where
  you do have to be lepping the stones and you going to the south;
  so I'm thinking the two of them will be drowned together in a
  short while; surely。
  SAINT。  They have chosen their lot; and the Lord have mercy on
  their souls。  (He rings his bell。)  And let the two of you come
  up now into the church; Molly Byrne and Timmy the smith; till I
  make your marriage and put my blessing on you all。
  'He turns to the church; procession forms; and the curtain comes
  down; as they go slowly into the church。'
  End