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AUGUSTA. Asher
ASHER. Then let Him strike me!
(He hurries abruptly out of the door, left.)
AUGUSTA (after a silence). During all the years of our married life, he
has never said such a thing as that. Asher an atheist!
DR. JONATHAN. So was Job, Augusta,--for a while.
AUGUSTA (avoiding DR. JONATHAN'S glance, and beginning to knit). You
wanted to speak to me, Jonathan?
(The MAID enters, lower right.)
MAID. Timothy Farrell, ma'am.
(Exit maid, enter TIMOTHY FARRELL.)
AUGUSTA. I'm afraid Mr. Pindar can't see you just now, Timothy.
TIMOTHY. It's you I've come to see, ma'am, if you'll bear with me,
--who once took an interest in Minnie.
AUGUSTA. It is true that I once took an interest in her, Timothy, but
I'm afraid I have lost it. I dislike to say this to you, her father, but
it's so.
TIMOTHY. Don't be hard on her, Mrs. Pindar. She may have been wild-
like in Newcastle, but since she was back here to work for the doctor
she's been a good girl, and that happy I wouldn't know her, and a comfort
to me in me old age,--what with Bert gone, and Jamesy taken to drink!
And now she's run away and left me alone entirely, with the shops closed,
and no work to do.
AUGUSTA (knitting).
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