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Private Gar: ‘God, Boy, why do you have to leave? Why? Why?’

Public Gar: ‘I don’t know. I-I-I don’t know.’

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Kate: “Your father’ll miss you.”

Public Gar: “I’ve stuck around this hole far too long, I’m telling you: it’s a bloody quagmire, a backwater, a dead-end!”

Public Gar: “You’re stuck here! What else can you say!”

Public Gar: “the sooner that plane whips me away, the better I’ll like it!”

Stage directions: “She is gone. Public returns and immediately buries his face in his hands.”

Public Gar: “Screwballs, say something! Say something, father!”

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Public Gar: “You’d let me know if - if he got sick or anything?”

Madge: “Were you and the boss chatting there?”

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S.B “I’ll manage by myself now Eh?,I’ll manage fine,Eh?
“Maybe it’s because I could have been his grandfather,Eh?”
“I’m not going to school. I’m going into my daddy’s business”
“All the chatting he used to go through”
“Hand in hand,as happy as larks”

Madge “They’re a new race-a new world.”

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Private Gar: 'We embarrass one another'
'I'm twenty five and you treat me as if I were five'

S.B: 'I suppose you'll be looking for your pay'

Madge: 'A body couldn't get a word in edgeways with you two!'

Madge: “The chatting in this place would deafen a body. Won’t the house be quiet soon enough - long enough?”

S.B: “Sure you know I never take a second cup.”

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Public Gar: (impetuously) “I want to go to America - if you’ll have me” -

“Now - as soon as I can, Aunt Lizzy - I meant it” -

Stage directions: "she has the habbit of putting her arm around, or catching the elbow of, the person she is adressing"

Lizzy:
"She was a helluva one for giggling."
"Nothing I our pockets. No job to go to."
"Doing big deals out there, honey, huh?"
"America's Gawd's own country."
We have this ground floor apartment, see, and a car that's air-conditioned and a colour TV .... and 15,000 in Federal Bonds"

Con:
"First job was with the construction company."
"He told you-he's away at a wedding."

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Public Gar: “the sooner that plane whips me away, the better I’ll like it!”

Kate : “Your father’ll miss you”

Public Gar: “You’re stuck here! What else can you say”

Public Gar: “I’ve stuck around this hole far too long, I’m telling you: it’s a bloody quagmire, a black water, a dead end”

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Ep1: Flashback to his relationship with Kate

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Ep1: Flashback to his relationship with Kate

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Gar: 'I'm mad about you!'
'I'll bloody well burst'
'We'll have to get married sooner'

Private Gar: 'It left a deep scar on the aul skitter of a soul'

Kate: 'But £3 15s Gar! We could never live on that'
'You have £20 a week and £5000 in the bank and your fathers about to retire'

Senator Doogan: 'There's nothing official yet: not even what you might call an understanding'
'His father and I were class fellows at school'
'Her happiness is all that is important to us'

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Ned:
“I meant to buy you something good, but the aul fella didn't sell the calf to the jobbers last Friday.”

Tom:
“Send us a pack of them playing cards - the ones with the dirty pictures on the back.”

Stage directions:
“They consistently refuse to acknowledge his leaving.”

“Another silence descends. After a few seconds Private speaks”

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Ep3: Gar and S.B talk about the boat trip 

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Ep3: Gar and S.B talk about the boat trip 

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"We were up there - the two of us... you put your jacket round my shoulders and gave me your hat" Gar

"You were happy. D'you remember? D'you remember" Gar

"It doesn't matter" Gar

"Public rushes quickly into the shop" stage directions for Gar

"Confused, on guard" stage directions for S.B

"Justly, reasonably" stage directions for S.B

"No . . . no, then I don't" S.B

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Madge: “Tomorrow’ll be sore on him (Gar): his heart’ll break tomorrow, and all next week, and the week after maybe.”

“He’ll be all right.”

“That lizzy one’ll look after him well.”

“That’ll get him a cup of tea on the plane.”

“When the boss was his (Gar’s) age, he was the very same as him: keeping, and eejitin’ about and actin’ the clown; as like as two peas.”

“And when he’s (Gar) the age the boss is now, he’ll turn out just the same.”

“You’ll find that he’s learned nothin’ in-between times.”

Stage direction:

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Gar: 'Whether he says goodbye to me or not..... it's a matter of total indifference to me Madge'
'£3 15s - that'll carry me far.'

Private Gar: 'God to take her away three days after you were born. . .'
'Rotten aul snobby bitch!'
'You thought your heart would burst with happiness.'

Madge: 'He said nothing either when your mother died.'