PATCHA
Who is he? What is he like, and where does he come
from?
MRS. FENNESSEY
How do I know where he comes from? He wanted to
know if Napoleon lived here and I told him there was
no one livin' here at present but one Patcha Cremin.
Sure, that's who I mean, says he. Are you Napoleon?
PATCHA
Yes, I'm Napoleon.
MRS. FENNESSEY
Glory be to the Lord! What a purty name they got
for you!
PATCHA
Did he say who he was?
MRS. FENNESSEY
He said he was an old friend of yours.
PATCHA
I wonder can it be the Duke of Wellington? Dannux
Touhy, I mean.
MRS. FENNESSEY
Touhy! Touhy! That's the name. Will I send him
up?
PATCHA
Do if you please, ma'am.
[_Mrs. Fennessey leaves the room, and in a short time
Dannux Touhy enters._
DANNUX (_as he shakes hands with Patcha_)
Well, well! 'Tis real glad that I am to see you. Sure
I didn't expect to find my old friend Napoleon in the
town of Ballinflask this blessed day. And I've heard
that Boulanger is here also. Is that so?
PATCHA
It is so, then. And he'll be as surprised as myself to
find the Duke of Wellington here before him when he
arrives.
DANNUX
What makes you be in bed at this hour of the day? Is
it the way that you're sick?
PATCHA
Not in the body, thank God, but in the mind and
heart.
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