Ave

Excerpt from Ave
In 1894 Edward Martyn and I were living in the Temple, I in a garret in Kings Bench Walk he in a garret in Pump Court. At this time I was very poor and had to work for my living, and all the hours of the day were spent writing some chapter of Esther Waters or of Modern Painting; and after dinner I often returned to my work. But towards midnight a wish to go out to speak to somebody would come upon me: Edward returned about that time from his club, and I used to go to Pump Court, sure of finding him seated in his high, canonical chair, sheltered by a screen, reading his book, his glass of grog beside him, his long clay pipe in his hand; and we used to talk literature and drama until two or three in the morning.
'I wish I knew enough Irish to write my plays in Irish, ' he said one night, speaking out of himself suddenly.
'You'd like to write your plays in Irish!' I exclaimed. 'I thought nobody did anything in Irish except bring turf from the bog and say prayers.'
Edward did not answer, and when I pressed him he said:
'You've always lived in France and England, and dont know Ireland.'
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