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“It takes great strength of character to walk five miles with a bag of fish heads,
the dead are drawn to those with shattered hearts.
“And he’s about as welcome as the clap.”
Wearing the skin off each other.
The Widow Farelly stands before him with a face that would curdle the milk inside a cow.
“That’s no news to me, Annie. I came for something fresh. Let’s start with what happened to
“Maybe we could entertain them with some of the highlights of your nursing career.”
“You’ll get hurted. To death even.”
Mulderrig proclaims that nature has turned insane.
For in the space of a rapid fart the waves in the bay have gone from flat to grown.
You wouldn’t want to be out in this with your trousers round your ankles. You’d take it as divine punishment and you’d never get your flute out again.
So there’s more to this storm than meets the eye,
This storm is here to help Mahony, not finish him off.”
He tells her that her injuries should be taken as a stark warning against the dangers of excessive reading.
books save lives.
“Now what are you up to, you devious old biddy?”
love is just as heartbreaking as pity.
Mulderrig has gone sour.
“And I wish you a lifetime of hard shits,” says Mrs. Cauley, downing her whiskey with a widening smile.
