Chapter 30 Part Two Chapter Six Saturday Night (3)

He leaned forward.Francie saw that there were tears in his eyes, but they were shining. "I was scrubbing him in the stable, I was scrubbing his stomach and he was pissing all over me." Katie and Ivy looked at each other, their eyes rolled quickly, and they were secretly having fun.Katie looked at Francie suddenly.There was still a smile in her eyes, but her mouth was still serious.Francie looked at the floor and frowned, but she couldn't help smiling. "That's what he does. Everyone in the stable laughs at me." He took another sip of his beer. "Stop saying that, Will," said his wife.

"Ivy doesn't love me," he told his mother. "I love you, Will," Ivy said in that soft voice that was soothing in itself. "You loved me when you were married, but not now, do you?" He waited.Ivy didn't say anything. "Look, she doesn't love me." He told his mother. "We have to go home," Ivy said. Before bed, Francie and Nealed had to read a page from the Bible and a page from Shakespeare.This is the rule.Mom used to read these two pages to them, but when they got older, they read them by themselves.To save time, Neeley read the Bible and Francie read Shakespeare.They read like this for six years, read half of the Bible, and read "Macbeth" from "The Complete Works of Shakespeare".They read quickly.By eleven o'clock, everyone in the Nolans, except Johnny, who was at work, was in bed.

On Saturday night, Francie could have a bedtime room.She put two chairs together and leaned them against the window so she could see the people on the street.As she lay there she could hear the noises of the night in the house.People were coming in, going back to their apartments.Some took heavy steps wearily.Some ran briskly upstairs.One fell and cursed at the linoleum in the hallway.A child was crying pretendingly, and a drunk downstairs was complaining about his wife's sinful life. At two o'clock in the morning Francie heard Papa singing softly as he came upstairs. …Dear Molly Malone,

Pushing her little unicycle. through the streets, cry alone... When I sang "Let the tears flow", my mother had already opened the door.This is a little game my dad plays.If the door opens before he finishes the verse, they win.If he finishes singing while still in the aisle, then he wins. Francie and Neeley both got out of bed and sat down at the table.Dad took out three yuan and put it on the table, and gave the children five cents each.Mom told them to put them in tin cans, saying that they had already been paid for picking up the trash the day before.Dad brought back a big paper bag of uneaten food from the wedding.Some guests at the wedding were absent.The bride gave the untouched food to the waiters.Among these were half a cold grilled lobster, five cold oysters, a small shallow jar of caviar, and a wedge of Roquefort cheese.The kids didn't like the lobster, the cold oysters were tasteless and the caviar was too salty.But they were so hungry that they cleared everything on the table and digested it in their stomachs at night.These kids could digest their fingernails, if they could eat them.

After eating, Francie faced reality: she broke the rule of fasting from twelve o'clock at night until Mass.Now, she cannot take communion.For such a felony, the priest and I will have to repent next week. Neeley went to bed again and continued to sleep soundly.Francie went into the dark front room and sat by the window.She doesn't want to sleep.Mom and Dad are sitting in the kitchen.They'd sit there talking and talking until dawn.Dad told her about the night, the people he saw, what they looked like, and the tone of their voice.The Nolans always look at life as inexhaustible.Their own lives are rich and fulfilling, but it is not enough.The Nolan family has to take care of the lives of everyone they have come into contact with.

In this way, Johnny and Katie chatted until dawn. Their cadenced voices made people feel safe and comfortable in this dark night.It was three o'clock and the street was very quiet.Francie sees a girl across the street coming back from dancing with her boyfriend.The two hugged each other tightly in the hallway.They just hugged each other without talking, and then the girl leaned back and accidentally touched the doorbell.Her father came downstairs in his underpants, and in a low voice, he scolded the boy like a dog, telling him to die, to hell, etc.The girl ran upstairs, laughing as she ran, almost dying of laughter.Her boyfriend swaggered down the street, whistling "It's Just You and Me Tonight."