The Image and Other Plays Author:Lady Gregory Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE WRENS Time: January 22nd, 1799. Scene: Outside House of Commons, Dublin. Porter at top of steps. Kirwan's servant arriving. Kirwan's Servant: Fine m... more »orning. Porter: Middling; for January. Kirwan's Servant: Are they making speeches yet? Porter: They are. Arguing and debating, Lords and Commons, through night and through dawn, till they have the world talked upside down. Kirwan's Servant: I suppose nearly the most of them is in it? Porter: What there isn't of them you wouldn't miss out of it, unless it might be your own master, Mr. Kirwan. Kirwan's Servant: He quitted the House after his big speech. He laid down to them a good line of talk. Porter: He got over all his enemies in that speech. Kirwan's Servant: He did, and the enemies of Ireland. They are as good as put down altogether. He'll be coming back in a while's time. Porter: Why wouldn't he, and the vote to be taken yet ? He's a man that has no mix in him. Kirwan's Servant: Around in the attorney's office he is, writing out documents to go by messengers to England so soon as the bill will be thrown out. He bade me to go call him at the time the vote will be coming on. Porter: It will not be long till that time. The speeches should be at their last goal. Kirwan's Servant: (Going to door.) I'll take my station here. So soon as they'll start to clap the bell I'll go warn him. Though it's likely his one vote won't be hardly needed, with all that will be against the bill. Porter. Maybe so. It's hard say. It being to be it will be. Kirwan's Servant: There is no man is honest and is straight but will give his voice against it. Porter: It's hard kriow what might happen from when we get up in the morning to when we go to bed at night; or half that time. Kirwan's Servant: Here...« less