John Sherman and Dhoya

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William Butler Yeats. John Sherman and Dhoya

GANCONAGH’S APOLOGY

PART I. JOHN SHERMAN LEAVES BALLAH

PART II. MARGARET LELAND

PART III. JOHN SHERMAN REVISITS BALLAH

PART IV. THE REV. WILLIAM HOWARD

PART V. JOHN SHERMAN RETURNS TO BALLAH

DHOYA

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In the west of Ireland, on the 9th of December, in the town of Ballah, in the Imperial Hotel there was a single guest, clerical and youthful. With the exception of a stray commercial traveller, who stopped once for a night, there had been nobody for a whole month but this guest, and now he was thinking of going away. The town, full enough in summer of trout and salmon fishers, slept all winter like the bears.

On the evening of the 9th of December, in the coffee-room of the Imperial Hotel, there was nobody but this guest. The guest was irritated. It had rained all day, and now that it was clearing up night had almost fallen. He had packed his portmanteau: his stockings, his clothes-brush, his razor, his dress shoes were each in their corner, and now he had nothing to do. He had tried the paper that was lying on the table. He did not agree with its politics.

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At dinner he was preoccupied.

“Mother,” he said, “would you much mind if we went away from this?”

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