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"But it was really the principle of the thing. Ask her." Francis turned back to Peggy, who was becoming angrier and angrier; for when you start forth to rescue any one, it is annoying, even as Logan found it, to have the rescue act as if it were nothing to her whether she was rescued or not. "Now, what really does ail him, Pegeen?" he asked affectionately. "Did you see him, or don't you know?"
Nora waited for a moment after Hannah had left her, then, shading her eyes from the westerly sun by one hand, she turned slowly and went into the house. "Where is mother, Pegeen?" she said to a rough-looking, somewhat slatternly servant who was crossing the hall. "In the north parlor, Miss Nora."
"Why, then, wasn't I getting it?" said Pegeen. She left the room, leaving the door wide open. "Just like them," said Mrs. O'Shanaghgan. "When you want the door open they invariably shut it, and when you want it shut they leave it open." "They do that in England too, as far as I can tell," said the Squire, with a slightly nettled tone in his voice.
Well, all the better; I'll get more to drink in the dining room. Order the tea as soon as you please." "Ring the bell, Patrick." The Squire strode to the mantelpiece, pulled a bell-cord which hung from the ceiling, a distant bell was heard ringing in noisy fashion, and a moment afterward Pegeen put in her head. "Come right in, Margaret," said her mistress.
I think I must make a change. I have heard of an excellent cook just about to leave some people of the name of Wilson in the town. They are English people, which accounts for their having a good servant." At that moment the redoubtable Pegeen did thrust in her head, holding the post-bag at arm's length away from her. "Here's the post, Miss Nora," she said; "maybe you'll fetch it, miss.
It is this which makes him find the masterly conclusion to Riders of the Sea, when old Maurya, lamenting the death of her sons, comforts herself, "No man at all can be living for ever, and we must be satisfied;" it is this which gives Naisi the ancient love of life, "It's a hard and bitter thing leaving the earth;" which produces so admirable a proverb as, "Who would listen to an old woman with one thing and she saying it over?"; and enables Pegeen, in The Playboy of the Western World, to perceive, if only from pique, the preposterousness of her infatuation "There's a great gap," she says and this is the gist of the matter "between a gallous story and a dirty deed."
The Playboy is one of the wildest conceptions of character in modern drama. His very extravagance compels interest. Pegeen is a fitting sweetheart for him. Her father is a stalwart figure, possessing a shrewd philosophy and rare strength of speech, as "fully flavored as nut or apple."
But never does such common sense stay the flight of the poetic dream. Pegeen may know the difference "between a gallous story and a dirty deed," but that does not stop her from breaking out into wild lamentations: "Oh, my grief, I've lost him surely. I've lost the only Playboy of the Western World."
A fearful deed frees the youth and throws him into the company of the lovely maiden, Pegeen, and admiring friends. The latent poetry and wild joy of living awake in him, and, under the spur of praise, he performs great feats. He who had never before dared to face girls, makes such love to Pegeen that poesy itself seems to be talking.
There had been basement dining-rooms, catsup bottles, and people passing everything to everybody else! "I'm afraid I'm early," he said in his quick voice. "Not a bit. Calvin, place a chair for Mr. Dalton." There were fruit and nuts and raisins in a great silver Pegeen, with fat cupids making love among garlands. There was coffee in Severus cups.
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