lying
in the same way. Wasn't I telling you it was for that I called to him?

BIDDY. Waken him now till they'll see did I tell any lie in my
foretelling. I knew well by the signs he was coming within the best day
of his life.

PAUDEEN. And not dead at all! We'll be marching to attack Dublin itself
within a week. The horn will blow for him, and all good men will gather
to him. Hurry on, Father, and waken him.

FATHER JOHN. I will not waken him. I will not bring him back from where
he is.

JOHNNY B. And how long will it be before he will waken of himself?

FATHER JOHN. Maybe to-day, maybe to-morrow; it is hard to be certain.

BIDDY. If it is _away_ he is, he might be away seven years. To be lying
like a stump of a tree and using no food and the world not able to
knock a word out of him, I know the signs of it well.

JOHNNY B. We cannot be waiting and watching through seven years. If the
business he has started is to be done, we have to go on here and now.
The time there is any delay, that is the time the Government will get
information. Waken him now, Father, and you'll get the blessing of the
generations.

FATHER JOHN. I will not bring him back. God will bring him back in His
own good time. For all I know he may be seeing the hidden things of
God.

JOHNNY B. He might slip away in his dream. It is best to raise him up
now.

ANDREW. Waken him, Father John. I thought he was surely dead this time;
and what way could I go face Thomas through all that is left of my
lifetime after me standing up to face him the way I did? And if I do
take a little drop of an odd night, sure I'd be very lonesome if I did
not take it. All the world knows it's not for love of what I drink, but
for love of the people that do be with me! Waken him, Father, or maybe
I would waken him myself. [_Shakes him._]

FATHER JOHN. Lift your hand from touching him. Leave him to himself and
to the power of God.

JOHNNY B. If you will not bring him back, why wouldn't we ourselves do
it? Go on now, it is best for you to do it yourself.

FATHER JOHN. I woke him yesterday. He was angry with me; he could not
get to the heart of the command.

JOHNNY B. If he did not, he got a command from myself that satisfied
him, and a message.

FATHER JOHN. He did ... he took it from you ... and how do I know what
devil's message it may have been that brought him into that devil's
work, destruction and drunkenness and burnings! That was not a message
from heave