The Playboy of the Western World • Paragraph 363
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SHAWN. _in terrified earnest._—She wouldn’t suit you, and she with the divil’s own temper the way you’d be strangling one another in a score of days. (_He makes the movement of strangling with his hands._) It’s the like of me only that she’s fit for, a quiet simple fellow wouldn’t raise a hand upon her if she scratched itself.