[{"node":{"title":"Lingard159","Collections":"Chapter 16","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard159","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Labour Exchange, Burning","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard159","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Lingard159_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff151\n\nready. She avoided looking at him.\n\n\"What are you grinning smiling about?\" asked her mother. \"I never\nthought I'd see the day when you'd be grinning about the prospect\nof spring-cleaning someone's house.\"\n\n\"It's just that it's a nice morning.\"\n\nShe wanted to skip as she went up the street. She did not go\nround by the side of the house so she did not see that the word\nTRAITOR had been repainted on the gable wall. She rode out to Mr\nBlake's house on the top front seat of the bus pitying all the people\nshe saw hurrying to w spend such a day in a dingy shop or office.\nHer mother thought she was going regularly to the Labour Exchange to\nlook for a new job.but she had never been back since the first day\nafter she had been sacked from the hat department.\n\nMr Blakes had taken his car out of the garage before she arrived.\nIt stood in the street looking shiny and clean. Kevin had washed it\nonly two days before.\n\n\"Good morning, Sadie.\" Mr Blake was cheerful. He always was.\n\nShe went straight to the kitchen to start making a picnic lunch.\nShe sniffed. There seemedto be a smell of bruning paper. She had\nnoticed it the day before too. She looked in the rubbish bin and\nsaw some charred paper. Mr Blake must have been burning old letters.\nStrange. She frowned, then forgot it. As she buttered the bread\nshe sang.\nWhen Kevin arrived shotyly afterwardsshe ran to meet him in the hall.\n\n\"How's Rafferty?\" It was the first thing the bothShe asked at once.\n","Type":"Text"}}]