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Йейтс Уильям Батлер
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hope he has brought Delia's fortune with him safe, for fear her people might go back on the bargain and I after making it. Trouble enough I had making it.


[PATRICK opens the door and MICHAEL comes in.]


BRIDGET. What kept you, Michael? We were looking out for you this long time.


MICHAEL. I went round by the priest's house to bid him be ready to marry us to-morrow.


BRIDGET. Did he say anything?


MICHAEL. He said it was a very nice match, and that he was never better pleased to marry any two in his parish than myself and Delia Cahel.


PETER. Have you got the fortune, Michael?


MICHAEL. Here it is.


[He puts bag on table and goes over and leans against the chimney-jamb. BRIDGET, who has been all this time examining the clothes, pulling the seams and trying the lining of the pockets, etc., puts the clothes on the dresser.]


PETER [getting up and taking the bag in his hand and turning out the money]. Yes, I made the bargain well for you, Michael. Old John Cahel would sooner have kept a share of this awhile longer. "Let me keep the half of it till the first boy is born," says he. "You will not," says I. "Whether there is or is not a boy, the whole hundred pounds must be in Michael's hands before he brings your daughter in the house." The wife spoke to him then, and he gave in at the end.


BRIDGET. You seem well pleased to be handling the money, Peter.


PETER. Indeed, I wish I had had the

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