Paraphrase or explain.

1. But as soon as his father-in-law was dead Mr. Mooney began to go to the devil.

2. So he was obliged to enlist himself as a sheriff’s man.

3. Jack Mooney had the reputation of a hard case.

4. As Polly was very lively the intention was to give her the run of the young men.

5. She watched the pair and kept her own counsel.

6. To begin with she had all weight of social opinion on her side: she was an outraged mother.

7. There must be reparation made in such cases.

8. Some mothers would be content to patch up such an affair for a sum of money.

9. She knew he had a good screw for one thing and he suspected he had a bit of stuff put by.

10. The recollection of his confession of the night before was a cause of acute pain to him.

11. All his long years of service gone for nothing! All his industry and diligence thrown away!

12. But the family would look down on her.

13. She had made a clean breast of it to her mother.

14. She would put an end to herself, she said.

15. He longed to ascend through the roof and fly away to another country where he would never hear again. Of his trouble, and yet a force pushed him down-stairs step by step.

16. Suddenly he remembered the night when one of the music-hall artistes had made a rather free allusion to Polly.

Comment with the reference to the short story.

1. It was no use making him take the pledge: he was sure to break out again a few days later.

2. Her house had a floating population made up of tourists… and occasionally artistes from the music hall.

3. When Jack met his friends he had always a good one to tell them and he was always sure to be on to good thing – that is to say, a likely horse or a likely artiste.

4. There had been no open complicity between mother and daughter, no open understanding but, though people in the house began to talk of the affair, still Mrs. Mooney did not intervene.

5. He was thirty-four or thirty-five years of age, so that youth could not be pleased at his excuse; nor could ignorance be his excuse since he was a man who had seen something of the world.

6. All the lodgers in the house knew something of the affairs: details had been invented by some.

7. The priest had drawn out every ridiculous detail of the affair and in the end had so magnified his sin that he was almost thankful at being afforded a loophole of reparation.

8. As a young man he had sown his wild oats; he had boasted of his free-thinking and denied the existence in God to his companions in public-houses. His instinct urged him to remain free, not to marry.

9. Once you are married you are done for, it said.

10. He scarcely knew what he was eating, feeling her beside him alone, at night in the sleeping house.

11. Even his sense of honour told him that reparation must be made for such a sin.

12. Going down the stairs his glassed became so dimmed with moisture that he had to take to polish them.

13. But Jack kept shouting at him that if any fellow tried that sort of a game on with his sister, he’d bloody well put his teeth down his throat, so he would.

14. Her hopes and visions were so intricate that she no longer saw the white pillows on which her gaze was fixed or remembered that she was waiting for nything.

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