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.