On this occasion the words of the penitent, an old countrywoman, could be distinctly heard outside the cubicle.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
It chanced that some short time before, one of Joyce's sons, in boarding an outward-bound American ship, had heard of a young countrywoman who, having taken her passage for New York, no sooner found herself at sea-parted, as she deemed it, forever from home and country-than she gave way to the most violent grief; so poignant, indeed, was her sorrow that the captain compassionately offered to relinquish her passage-money if Joyce would take charge of her, and re-land her on the shores of Ireland.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Speaking of her recollection of the great novelist to an American lady by whom these facts are recorded, the old countrywoman remarked: "It were wonderful, just wonderful, the sight o' green peas that I sent down to that gentleman and lady every week."
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind