[...]
"Thank you, Mary."
Mary said then that he brought something special for Mom and Dad, something that surely would have liked, and began to look for the plum. He rummaged in her bag of Downes and then into the pockets of the raincoat, and finally sull'attaccapanni, but could not find it anywhere. He then asked the children if any of them had eaten - by mistake, of course - but all the kids said no and took on the air if he did not like the sweets were to be accused of stealing them.
Each proposed his own solution to the mystery and Mrs. Donnelly said Maria would have surely forgotten by tram. Maria, remembering how he had confused the gentleman in front of grayish mustache, flushed with a mixture of shame, anger and disappointment.
at the thought of having lost his little surprise and throwing anything for two shillings and four pence, I almost burst into tears.
But Joe said it did not matter and made her sit by the fireplace. With her was very kind. He told her how things were in his office and repeated a better answer he gave to his principal.
Maria could not understand why Joe found time to laugh in this answer, but said it must be difficult to get along with an authoritarian like his master. Joe said that to get to know the right way was not a bad, indeed it was a good person as long as you have not annoyed. Mrs. Donnelly began playing the piano for the children and they danced and sang. Then the two daughters of nearby began to distribute the nuts.
But no one could find the nutcrackers and little Joe this is not angered, that he began to ask around as it did Mary to crush nuts without a nutcracker.
But Mary said she did not like the nuts and not had to worry about her.
Then Joe asked if compensation would have liked a bottle of beer and Mrs. Donnelly said that, if you prefer, they also bring home. Maria then said that he did not need anything but Joe insisted.
from "Dubliners" by James Joyce, Ed Universale Economica Feltrinelli CLASSICS, 1998, pp. 94-95.
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