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Dialogue following No. 14.



Enter Murphy from park.

Murphy.
Is that Molly's voice I hear - Molly O'Grady's?

Nora.
(aside) Hush! It's frightening the soldiers we are!

Rosie.
It is the Fairy Cleena!

Terence.
The Queen of the Fairies!

Murphy.
Is it the Queen of the Fairies ye are?

Molly.
I am that! I have taken Molly's shape and her voice for my appearance.

Murphy.
It's a wise choice ye made, Cleena, darlin'. It's her voice I'd follow whenever it called - even to the caves, on a dark night.

Bunn.
Fool! Look at me, and tremble!

Murphy.
I'd be a fool to tremble with lookin' at anyone, bein' blind. Cleena, darlin', ye may not know it, but it's a miraculous cure for my blindness that I'm lookin' for. It's my mind was made up to come to your caves this very night to ask for it as a gift from the fairies. I'll follow you.

Molly.
No; the fairies cannot cure you of your blindness. You will be disappointed, Blind Murphy.

Murphy.
Not at all. It's certain sure I am that I'll be able to see by the mornin' -

Molly.
Be warned - do not trust too much in the fairies, poor Blind Murphy. (exit)

Terence.
You will be kept in the Cavern of Dreams for fifty years!

Murphy.
Bedad, then, I'll be after puttin' a few things in a bundle for my visit. (Exit into cottage.)

Sergeant.
Now, diddee iver see sich a chubble-headed vule's 'er is in awl yer born days? I niver didden!

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