[{"node":{"title":"Hanna003","Collections":"Part One","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna003","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Pulpit, Reverence","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna003","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/Hanna003_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"2\n\nassistance managed to press the ring over the first gnarled joint of her\n\nfinger. But the lower knuckle, hard and dented as a chestnut was too\n\nlarge for the ring and Sarah timorously drew back her hand, Sorleyson\n\ncaught it abruptly. 'I think we should manage to do it properly, he said,\n\nand tried to press the ring down to the root of her finger, As she winced,\n\nhe lowered her hand with a look of annoyance, having the ring turning\n\nloosely in the middle of the fleshiness concave finger.\n\n\u201cIf you\u2019ll follow me to the vestry\u201d he said, waving his hand towards\n\na door in the shadow of the pulpit. You too, Mr Neilly, please!\u201d he\n\ncalled into the empty church. From the darkness of the last pew at the\n\nback of the church a man appeared and came trotting down the aisle with\n\na fixed smile on his face, a bunch of keys chattering and tinkling from\n\nhis hand. '\u2019Right your reverence, right now, ' he answered waving his\n\nfree hand deprecatingly as he approached them, the bridal party\n\nfollowed Sorleyson into the small room where he unlocked a cupboard,\n\ntook out a flat black book and opened it on a narrow table. You sign\n\nhere and with his firm young fingers he guided the gnarled discoloured\n\nhands of the man and woman. \u2019Now; you, Andrew, and he handed the pen to\n\nthe youth, write your name here, where it says 'in tho presence of us\"'\n\nHe took the pen, wrote 'Andrew' hesitated for a moment and added \u2018Echlin.*\n\nSorleyson glanced at the sexton and waved to the pen. With practised\n\ncarelessness he scrawled in his signature, laid down the pen, looked at the\n\nmarried couple, and then, without speaking, slithered out of the door and\n\nhurried up the aisle,\n\nSorleyson thrust out his hands and caught hold those of Hamilton and Sarah.\n\n\"Congratulations and may God bless you both!\" he cried, he held Sharah\u2019s\n","Type":"Text"}}]