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Updated: May 24, 2025
The old familiar place, the little room with the poor little window looking out on the orchard, the poor little bed with its pink curtains like a tent, the sweet old blankets, the wash-basin, the press, the blind with the same old pattern, the sheepskin rug underfoot, the whitewashed scraas overhead everything the same, but, O God! how different!
She folded her arms in their roundness over her bosom in its fulness and walked up and down the little room over the sheep-skin rugs, under the turfy scraas, glowing in the joy of blooming health and conscious loveliness. Then she began to dress. She took from a drawer two pairs of stockings, one black and the other red, and weighed their merits with moral gravity which?
The sweet and natty old gentlewoman, brought up in the odour of gentility, was thinking on the lines of poor Bridget, Black Tom when dying under the bare scraas, that a man's son was his son in spite of law or devil. She decided against telling the Ballawhaine by remembering an incident in the life of his father.
The birds were singing by this time, and Pete, going back, sang and whistled with the best of them. In the mists of morning, Grannie had awakened in her bed with the turfy scraas of the thatch just visible above her, and the window-blind like a hazy moon floating on the wall at her side.
And, to cover his confusion, Pete laughed till the scraas of the roof began to snip. There was a moment's pause, and then Kate said, with a cough and a stammer and her head aside, "Is that so very tiring, Pete?" Pete leapt from his chair and laughed again like a man demented. "D'ye say so, Kitty? The word then, darling the word in my ear as soft as soft "
When I awoke next morning in "Mary O'Neill's little room," with its odour of clean white linen and sweet-smelling scraas, the sun was shining in at the half-open window, birds were singing, cattle were lowing, young lambs were bleating, a crow was cawing its way across the sky, and under the sounds of the land there was a far-off murmur of the sea.
Put up a bit of a prayer," whispered Grannie to her husband; and Cæsar took a pinch of snuff out of his waistcoat pocket, and fell to "wrastling with the Lord." Bridget seemed to be comforted. "I see the jasper gates," she panted, fixing her hazy eyes on the scraas under the thatch, from which broken spiders' webs hung down like rats' tails. Then she called for Pete. She had something to give him.
There were the pink curtains hanging like a tent above her, there were the scraas of the thatched roof, with the cracking whitewash snipping down on the counterpane, there were the press and the wash-hand table, the sheep-skin on the floor, and the sun coming through the orchard window. But everything was transfigured, everything beautiful, everything mysterious.
He could it was in the little dimity-white room in his mother's house with its sweet-smelling "scraas" under the sloping thatch. "Well, you don't remember what you were doing when we held our first conversation?" He did he was standing on his hands with his feet against the wall and his inverted head close to the carpet. "But you've forgotten what happened next?"
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