Hard She will bless you—she will take you to her breast.
Eily But you—another will take you to her breast.
Hard Oh, Eily, darling, d’ye think I could forget you, machree—forget the sacrifice more than blood you give me?
Eily Oh! when you talk that way to me, ye might take my life, and heart, and all. Oh! Hardress, I love you—take the paper and tare it. [Hardress takes paper.
Enter Myles C., opening.
Myles No. I’ll be damned if he shall.
Hard Scoundrel! you have been listening?
Myles To every word. I saw Danny, wid his ear agin that dure, so as there was only one kay-hole, I adopted the windy. Eily, aroon, Mr. Cregan will giv’ ye back that paper; you can’t tare up an oath; will ye help him then to cheat this other girl, and to make her his mistress, for that’s what she’ll be if ye are his wife. An’ after all, what is there agin’ the crature? Only the money she’s got. Will you stop lovin’ him when his love belongs to another? No! I know it by myself; but if ye jine their hands together your love will be an adultry.
Eily Oh, no!