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Juno and the paycock

The Story
Waiting for Captain Boyle to come in from his morning visit to the pub الحانة, Mary Boyle and her mother, Juno, discussed the newspaper account of the murder مقتلof Robbie Tancred, a fanatic Irish Republican الأيرلندى الجمهورى المتعصب. Johnny Boyle, who had been shot in the hip الورك and had lost an arm fighting against the Free State, left the living room after denouncing الشجب the two women for their morbid insensitivity عدم حساسيتهما. Juno scolded وبختMary for participating in the Trades Union Strike إضراب نقابيون الحرف, especially at a time when the family was in debt دين for food but Mary defended her activities نشاطات, and her brother’s as well, as matters of principle كأمر من أمور المبادئ.
When Jerry Devine rushed سرع in with a message from Father Farrell الأب, who had found a job for Boyle, Juno sent Jerry to look for her husband at his favorite bar الحانة . Soon afterward she heard her husband and his crony صديقة الحميم , Joxer Daly, singing on the stairs. She hid behind the bed curtains ستائر so as to catch them talking about her. Disclosing herself كشفت نفسها, she frightened Joxer away and berated وبخت her husband for his laziness and malingering كسلة وتمارضة . Jerry returned and delivered his message to Boyle, who immediately developed a case of stabbing pains in his legs يعانى من الالم فى سيقانة. Juno, not deceived لم تنخدع, ordered him to change into his working clothes. She then left for her own job.
Jerry accosted تحدث معها Mary, complained يعانى of her unfriendliness برودها, and once again proposed to her تقدم لها. Although Jerry offered her love and security, Mary refused him, and both left in a huff غضب/تكشير.
Ignoring متجاهلاً his wife’s instructions to apply for the job تعليماتها بالتقدم للوظيفة, Boyle, leisurely proceeding to get his breakfast ذهب ليتناول فطور مترف, was rejoined by أنضم ثانية Joxer. Absorbed منغمسين in their talk, they refused رفضوا to acknowledge a loud knocking at the street door يلفون فى الشوارع, though the continuance استمراريةof it seemed to upset منزعج young Johnny Boyle. Their rambling discourse الحديث المشتت on family life, the clergy رجال الدين, literature الأدب, and the sea was interrupted أنقطعوا by Juno and Mary, who had returned with Charlie Bentham, a schoolteacher and amateur lawyer معلمة ومحامية هاوية, to announce that a cousin had bequeathed £2,000 to Boyle لتخبرة أنة ورث من ابن عمة . Boyle declared أعلن that he was through with Joxer and the like, whereuponعند ذلك Joxer, who had been hiding outside the window, reappeared ظهر ثانية, expressed his indignation, and left أبدى امتعاضة ورحل.
Two days later the two cronies had been reconciled تم التوفيق بين الصديقين, Joxer having served as Boyle’s agent for loans القروض based on expectations of the inheritance توقعاتهم للميراث. The entrance of Juno and Mary with a new gramophone was followed by that of Bentham, now Mary’s fiancé خطيب. Over family tea, Bentham explained his belief in theosophy تصوف and ghosts الأشباح. Johnny, visibly upset منزعج by this conversation about death, left the room but quickly returned, twitching and trembling يوخذ ويرتجف . He was convinced مقتنع that he had seen the bloody ghost الشبح الدموى of Robbie Tancred kneeling before the statue of the Virgin. يسجد أمام تمثال العذراء
The arrival of Joxer with Mrs. Madigan, a garrulously reminiscing neighbor الجارة الثرثارة, smoothed over the incident تلطف الأحداث . A party featuring whiskey and song ensued حفل يتخللة وسكى وغناء. The revelry المرح was interrupted by Mrs. Tancred and some neighbors, on their way to Robbie Tancred’s funeral جنازة. Soon thereafter the merriment الفرح was again dispelled بدد, this time by the funeral procession in the street الموكب الجنائزى بالشارع . A young man, an Irregular Mobilizer غير منتظم, came looking for Johnny, whom he reproached أنتقدةfor not attending the funeral لعدم حضورة الجنازة. He ordered Johnny to appear at a meeting called for the purpose of inquiring into Tancred’s death وأمرة لحضور أجتماع التحقيق فى سبب وفاة.
Two months later, Juno insisted on taking Mary to the doctor, for the young woman seemed to be pining away over Bentham متلهفة للقاء, who had disappeared.
After the women had left, Joxer and Nugent, a tailor خياط, slipped into دخلو the apartment. Having learned that Boyle would not receive the inheritance علموا انة لن يستلم الميراث, Nugent had come to get the suit which he had sold to Boyle on credit. Taking the suit البدلةfrom a chair من على الكرسى, Nugent scoffed سخر at Boyle’s promise to pay and his order for a new topcoat معطف خفيفas well. Joxer, who had sneaked تسللout unseen, returned, hypocrite منافق that he was, to commiserate يرثى with Boyle. Mrs. Madigan, who had also heard that Boyle would not receive his inheritance, arrived to collect the three pounds she had lent سلفتةhim. Rebuffed رفض , she appropriated the gramophone and left استولت على المذياع ورحلت, followed by Joxer.
News of Boyle’s misadventure تعاستة spread rapidly أنتشرت بسرعة ; two men arrived to remove the new, but unpaid-for, furniture. Mrs. Boyle ran out to find her husband. Mary having returned, Jerry Devine came to see her. Again he proposed تقدم لها. Although he was willing to forget that Mary had jilted him for Bentham هجرتة من أجل, he recoiled at her admission that she was pregnant وارتد عندما اعترفت انها حامل.
Left alone with the two moving men, Johnny imagined that he felt a bullet wound in his chest جرح برصاصة فى صدرة. At that moment two armed Irish Irregulars مسلحين ايرلنديين غير منتظمين entered the apartment and accused اتهموا Johnny of informing on بلغ عن Robbie Tancred to the gang العصابة that had murdered him. Ignoring Johnny’s protestations of innocence and loyalty متجاهلين تأكيدات برائتة وولائة, the men dragged him out سحبوة للخارج. A little later, Mrs. Madigan notified Mary and Juno that the police were waiting below, requesting that Juno identify a body تحديد هوية. Juno and Mary left, vowing تعهدوا never to return to the worthless Boyle عديم القيمة.
Soon Boyle and Joxer stumbled into تعثر فى the abandoned apartment الشقة المنبوذة, both very drunk and unaware سكرانين وغير مباليين of Johnny’s death بموت or Juno and Mary’s desertion هجر/رحيل. Joxer stretched تمدد out on the bed; Boyle slumped on the floor ارتمى على الأرض. With thick tongues they stammered out their patriotic devotion to Ireland بولائهم الوطنى لأيرلندا تتلعثم, and Boyle deplored أستنكر the miserable state of the world الدولة البائسة فى العالم.
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