He makesa
rush at Christy, knocks him down,and begins to beat him.]
PEGEEN -- [dragging back his arm.] -- Stop that, will you. Who are you at
all?
MAHON. His father, God forgive me!
PEGEEN -- [drawing back.] -- Is it rose from the dead?
MAHON. Do you think I look so easy quenched with the tap of a loy? [Beats
Christy again.]
PEGEEN -- [glaring at Christy.] -- And it's lies you told, letting on you had
him slitted, and you nothing at all.
CHRISTY -- [clutching Mahon's stick.] -- He's not my father. He's a raving
maniac would scare the world. (Pointing to Widow Quin.) Herself knows it is
true.
CROWD. You're fooling Pegeen! The Widow Quin seen him this day, and you
likely knew! You're a liar!
CHRISTY -- [dumbfounded.] It's himself was a liar, lying stretched out with
an open head on him, letting on he was dead.
MAHON. Weren't you off racing the hills before I got my breath with the start
I had seeing you turn on me at all?
PEGEEN. And to think of the coaxing glory we had given him, and he after
doing nothing but hitting a soft blow and chasing northward in a sweat of
fear. Quit off from this.
CHRISTY -- [piteously.] You've seen my doings this day, and let you save me
from the old man; for why would you be in such a scorch of haste to spur me to
destruction now?
PEGEEN. It's there your treachery is spurring me, till I'm hard set to think
you're the one I'm after lacing in my heart-strings half-an-hour gone by.
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