Excerpt: ...surely." DEIRDRE. It isn't pleasure I'd have while Conchubor is king in Emain. FERGUS - i almost annoyed. /i - Would you doubt the seals of Conall Cearneach and the kings of Meath? ( i He gets parchments from his cloak and gives them to Naisi. More gently. /i ) It's easy being fearful and you alone in the woods, yet it would be a poor thing if a timid woman ( i taunting her a little /i ) could turn away the Sons of Usna from the life of kings. Let you be thinking on the years to come, Deirdre, and the way you'd ...
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Excerpt: ...surely." DEIRDRE. It isn't pleasure I'd have while Conchubor is king in Emain. FERGUS - i almost annoyed. /i - Would you doubt the seals of Conall Cearneach and the kings of Meath? ( i He gets parchments from his cloak and gives them to Naisi. More gently. /i ) It's easy being fearful and you alone in the woods, yet it would be a poor thing if a timid woman ( i taunting her a little /i ) could turn away the Sons of Usna from the life of kings. Let you be thinking on the years to come, Deirdre, and the way you'd have a right 55 to see Naisi a high and white-haired justice beside some king of Emain. Wouldn't it be a poor story if a queen the like of you should have no thought but to be scraping up her hours dallying in the sunshine with the sons of kings? DEIRDRE - i turning away a little haught- ily. /i - I leave the choice to Naisi. ( i Turning back towards Fergus. /i ) Yet you'd do well, Fergus, to go on your own way, for the sake of your own years, so you'll not be saying till your hour of death, maybe, it was yourself brought Naisi and his brothers to a grave was scooped by treachery. i Goes into tent. /i FERGUS. It is a poor thing to see a queen so lonesome and afraid. ( i He watches till he is sure Deirdre cannot hear him. /i ) Listen now to what I'm saying. You'd do well to come back to men and women are your match and comrades, and not be lingering until the day that you'll grow weary, and hurt Deirdre showing her the hardness will grow up within your eyes. . . . You're here years and plenty to know it's truth I'm saying. i Deirdre comes out of tent with a horn of wine, she catches the beginning of Naisi's speech and stops with stony wonder. /i 56 NAISI - i very thoughtfully. /i - I'll not tell you a lie. There have been days a while past when I've been throwing a line for salmon or watching for the run of hares, that I've a dread upon me a day'd come I'd weary of her voice, ( i very slowly /i ) and Deirdre'd see I'd wearied....
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