Excerpt from The Moonlighter: A Play in Four Acts Eileen. 'tis surely blowing a horn he is gone to Widow Casey's eviction! Ellen. And Peter will hear of it, and Eugene, the darling of my heart, will be banged across the ocean. Eugene the only son left to me - Eugene that I wouldn't give the black of his nail for a hundred thousand children, if it was the will of God that I should give birth to such an almighty number! But now he'll surely have to march it, Eileen. Eileen. Let us be hoping, mother, it won't come to father's ears. If it does itself, it shouldn't make much pains for father if Eugene don't come to worse, for blowing a horn is no crime in the sight of God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.