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I must have walked that floor for a couple of hours. And all the time, the landlord never moved from behind the bar. He hadn’t spoken since the wedding guests left. He wouldn’t even look at me. I think he hated me. I know he did.
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And as I moved across that yard towards them and offered myself to them, then for the first time I had a simple and genuine sense of home-coming. Then for the first time there was no atrophying terror; and the maddening questions were silent. At long last I was renouncing chance.
Brian Friel. “Faith Healer” in Selected Plays.Faber and Faber, 1990. pp.374-376.
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