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She may have been wild- like in Newcastle, but since she was back here to work for the doctor she's been a good girl, and that happy I wouldn't know her, and a comfort to me in me old age, what with Bert gone, and Jamesy taken to drink! And now she's run away and left me alone entirely, with the shops closed, and no work to do. She's left Foxon Falls?
DR. JONATHAN. Oh, nothing at first hand. But I can see why Bert's going to the war, and why Jamesy took to drink, and why Minnie left Foxon Falls. GEORGE. The deuce you can! DR. JONATHAN. And so can you, George. When you get back from France you will know what you have been fighting for. GEORGE. And what's that? DR. JONATHAN. Economic freedom, without which political freedom is a farce.
Industrial democracy. GEORGE. Industrial democracy! Well, it wasn't included in my education at Harvard. DR. JONATHAN. Our education begins, unfortunately, after we leave Harvard, with Bert and Jamesy and Minnie. And here's Minnie, now! I'll beat it! Mother wants to talk to her. No, wait. Her attitude is somewhat inquisitorial; her tone, as she addresses MINNIE, non- committal.
"I don't think I possibly could ride anything except Bobs out there. Cecil might have him another day, if Jim doesn't think me quite mad. Perhaps I won't be sorry if he does, 'cause I'd hate to go against Jim! And Bobs is " "Bobs," said Wally gravely; and Norah smiled at him. "Hallo, Jamesy what passion hangs these weights upon thy brow?" Jim had entered quickly.
"Asked her," said Doyle, "was there ever a boy about the place at night; which of course there wasn't, her being a respectable girl that wasn't keeping company with any boy, unless it might be walking out now and then of a Sunday with Jamesy Carroll.
AUGUSTA. I've been worried about Minnie since she went to Newcastle. She has so much vitality, and I'm afraid she's pleasure loving though she seemed to take to religion with her whole soul. And where's Jamesy? TIMOTHY. Jamesy, is it? It's gone to the bad entirely he is, with the drink. He left the shops when the twelve-hour shifts began wherever he's at now.
DR. JONATHAN. But this craving for amusement, for excitement and adventure isn't peculiar to you and me. Workingmen have it too, and working girls. GEORGE. You're a wise guy, I guess. DR. JONATHAN. Oh no, not that! But I've found out that you and I are not so very different from Timothy Farrell and his children, Bert and Jamesy and Minnie. What do you know about them?
AUGUSTA. It grieves me to hear you talk in this way. I knew you were pleasure loving, I thought I saw certain tendencies in you, yet you seemed to realize the grace of religion when you were in my Bible class. Your brother Jamesy took to drink MINNIE. And I took to religion. You meant to be kind, Mrs. Pindar, and I thank you.
Onest before the mornin' light The Horseman will come ridin' Roun' an' roun' the Fairy Lough, An' no one there to see. But there will be some one there, and that is the aforesaid Jamesy Flanigan! Sometimes I think he is fibbing, but a glance at his soft, dark, far-seeing eyes under their fringe of thick lashes convinces me to the contrary.
But now I know why Jamesy took to drink it was for the same reason I took to religion. Minnie! MINNIE. We were both trying to be free, to escape. AUGUSTA. To escape? From what? I guess it would be pretty hard to get it across to you, Mrs. Pindar. But I was working ten hours a day packing tools in your shops, and all you gave me when the whistle blew was Jesus.
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