Awesome / The Kellys and the O'Kellys

• Barry Lynch confronts Mary Kelly after she helps Anastasia escape. Barry is hungover and still half-drunk, not to mention infamous for being violent. Mary is a middle-aged shopkeeper. Guess who wins their verbal battle. The whole scene is too long to quote, but here's an excerpt:
  [Barry said,] "Very well, Mrs Kelly—you shall pay for this impudence, and that dearly. You've invented these lies, as a pretext for getting my sister and her property into your hands!"
  "Lies!" screamed the widow; "av' you say lies to me agin, in this house, I'll smash the bones of ye myself, with the broom-handle. Lies, indeed! and from you, Barry Lynch, the biggest liar in all Connaught—not to talk of robber and ruffian! You'd betther take yourself out of that, fair and asy, while you're let. You'll find you'll have the worst of it, av' you come rampaging here wid me, my man!"

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