MARTIN DOUL -- [more defiantly.] -- You will not, holy father.
Would you have her looking on me, and saying hard words to me,
till the hour of death?
SAINT -- [severely.] -- If she's wanting her sight I wouldn't
have the like of you stop her at all. (To Mary Doul.) Kneel
down, I'm saying.
MARY DOUL -- [doubtfully.] -- Let us be as we are, holy father,
and then we'll be known again in a short while as the people is
happy and blind, and be having an easy time, with no trouble to
live, and we getting halfpence on the road.
MOLLY BYRNE. Let you not be a raving fool, Mary Doul. Kneel
down now, and let him give you your sight, and himself can be
sitting here if he likes it best, and taking halfpence on the
road.
TIMMY. That's the truth, Mary; and if it's choosing a wilful
blindness you are, I'm thinking there isn't anyone in this place
will ever be giving you a hand's turn or a hap'orth of meal, or
be doing the little things you need to keep you at all living in
the world.
MAT SIMON. If you had your sight, Mary, you could be walking up
for him and down with him, and be stitching his clothes, and
keeping a watch on him day and night the way no other woman would
come near him at all.
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