{"product_id":"2940012426642","title":"DUBLINERS","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     The Sisters\u003cbr\u003e     An Encounter\u003cbr\u003e     Araby\u003cbr\u003e     Eveline\u003cbr\u003e     After the Race\u003cbr\u003e     Two Gallants\u003cbr\u003e     The Boarding House\u003cbr\u003e     A Little Cloud\u003cbr\u003e     Counterparts\u003cbr\u003e     Clay\u003cbr\u003e     A Painful Case\u003cbr\u003e     Ivy Day in the Committee Room\u003cbr\u003e     A Mother\u003cbr\u003e     Grace\u003cbr\u003e     The Dead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDUBLINERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SISTERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHERE was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night\u003cbr\u003eafter night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied\u003cbr\u003ethe lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it\u003cbr\u003elighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought,\u003cbr\u003eI would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew\u003cbr\u003ethat two candles must be set at the head of a corpse. He had often said\u003cbr\u003eto me: \"I am not long for this world,\" and I had thought his words idle.\u003cbr\u003eNow I knew they were true. Every night as I gazed up at the window\u003cbr\u003eI said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded\u003cbr\u003estrangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word\u003cbr\u003esimony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some\u003cbr\u003emaleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to\u003cbr\u003ebe nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOld Cotter was sitting at the fire, smoking, when I came downstairs\u003cbr\u003eto supper. While my aunt was ladling out my stirabout he said, as if\u003cbr\u003ereturning to some former remark of his:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No, I wouldn't say he was exactly... but there was something queer...\u003cbr\u003ethere was something uncanny about him. I'll tell you my opinion....\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe began to puff at his pipe, no doubt arranging his opinion in his\u003cbr\u003emind. Tiresome old fool! When we knew him first he used to be rather\u003cbr\u003einteresting, talking of faints and worms; but I soon grew tired of him\u003cbr\u003eand his endless stories about the distillery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I have my own theory about it,\" he said. \"I think it was one of\u003cbr\u003ethose... peculiar cases.... But it's hard to say....\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe began to puff again at his pipe without giving us his theory. My\u003cbr\u003euncle saw me staring and said to me:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, so your old friend is gone, you'll be sorry to hear.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Who?\" said I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Father Flynn.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Is he dead?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mr. Cotter here has just told us. He was passing by the house.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI knew that I was under observation so I continued eating as if the news\u003cbr\u003ehad not interested me. My uncle explained to old Cotter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The youngster and he were great friends. The old chap taught him a\u003cbr\u003egreat deal, mind you; and they say he had a great wish for him.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"God have mercy on his soul,\" said my aunt piously.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOld Cotter looked at me for a while. I felt that his little beady black\u003cbr\u003eeyes were examining me but I would not satisfy him by looking up from my\u003cbr\u003eplate. He returned to his pipe and finally spat rudely into the grate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I wouldn't like children of mine,\" he said, \"to have too much to say to\u003cbr\u003ea man like that.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"How do you mean, Mr. Cotter?\" asked my aunt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What I mean is,\" said old Cotter, \"it's bad for children. My idea is:\u003cbr\u003elet a young lad run about and play with young lads of his own age and\u003cbr\u003enot be... Am I right, Jack?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"That's my principle, too,\" said my uncle. \"Let him learn to box his\u003cbr\u003ecorner. That's what I'm always saying to that Rosicrucian there: take\u003cbr\u003eexercise. Why, when I was a nipper every morning of my life I had a cold\u003cbr\u003ebath, winter and summer. And that's what stands to me now. Education\u003cbr\u003eis all very fine and large.... Mr. Cotter might take a pick of that leg\u003cbr\u003emutton,\" he added to my aunt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No, no, not for me,\" said old Cotter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy aunt brought the dish from the safe and put it on the table.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"But why do you think it's not good for children, Mr. Cotter?\" she\u003cbr\u003easked.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's bad for children,\" said old Cotter, \"because their mind are so\u003cbr\u003eimpressionable. When children see things like that, you know, it has an\u003cbr\u003eeffect....\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI crammed my mouth with stirabout for fear I might give utterance to my\u003cbr\u003eanger. Tiresome old red-nosed imbecile!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was late when I fell asleep. Though I was angry with old Cotter for\u003cbr\u003ealluding to me as a child, I puzzled my head to extract meaning from his\u003cbr\u003eunfinished sentences. In the dark of my room I imagined that I saw again\u003cbr\u003ethe heavy grey face of the paralytic. I drew the blankets over my head\u003cbr\u003eand tried to think of Christmas. But the grey face still followed me. It\u003cbr\u003emurmured, and I understood that it desired to confess something. I felt\u003cbr\u003emy soul receding into some pleasant and vicious region; and there again\u003cbr\u003eI found it waiting for me.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078779191536,"sku":"2940012426642","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012426642_p0.jpg?v=1763568364","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012426642","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}