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START: Alice: It wasn’t exactly the biggest funeral ever seen in Ballybeg, was it?
Casimir: Did you notice--the whole village shut down.
Alice: For the minute it took the hearse to pass through. And as Sister Therese would say: “The multitude in the church was a little empty, too.�
Casimir: I thought the Requiem Mass very moving.
[...]
END: Eamon: Jerry.
Alice: Who?
Eamon: Jerry McLaughlin.
Alice: Who’s Jerry Mc--? Not--?
(Eamon nods)
For God’s sake! But the man could be her father, Judith!
Judith: Easy.
Brian Friel. Aristocrats. The Gallery Press, 1990. p.83.
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