[{"node":{"title":"Lingard001","Collections":"Chapter 1","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard001","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Sadie, Donegall, Kevin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/page-one","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/Lingard001_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"1\n\nCHAPTER ONE\n\nSadie Jackson walked along Donegall Place glad to be free of the day's\nwork. The long day behind the shop counter bored her. It was time\nshe was looking for another job. Her mother would blow her head\noff if she came home saying that. She was always changing jobs.\nThree in the last year, and each one more ~~tiresome~~ boring than the last.\nBut she forgot about them now for it was a fine ~~spring~~ summer evening.\n\nShe crossed with the crowd over the busy street to the City hall.\nAs she moved along the wide pavement stepped on to the kerb she heard someone call her name.\n\n\"Sadie! Sadie Jackson!\"\nShe looked round. For a moment she could not see who it was\nthat was calling her. The pavement was busythick with people heading\nhomewards. Then she saw him coming through the midst of the throng. Tall, dark, broader than she had\nremembered, but with the same bright spark in his eyes. She waited\nfor him to reach her.\n\n\"Kevin,\" she said. \"Kevin McCoy.\" XXX XXXX\n\n\"It's me all right.\" He was grinning. \u201dI saw you coming a mile\naway.\u201d\n\n\"Haven't seen you for ages. XXX XXXX. It must be nearly three\nyears.\u201d\n\n\u201cDaresaySuppose it is. Funny seeing you again after all this time so long.\u201d\n\nThey only lived a few streets away from one another but it might\nas well have been a few thousand miles. They stood and looked at one another\nand let the hurrying people push t round them.\n\n\"Fancy a cup of coffee?\" asked Kevin. \"Have you time?\"\n\n\"Don't see why not,\" said Sadie. There were many good reasons\nwhy not, her mother would say, but Sadie was not one to be put off\n","Type":"Text"}}]