[{"node":{"title":"Hanna010","Collections":"Part One","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna010","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Cynic, Habitation","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna010","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/Hanna010_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"5\n\nexperience.\n\nHe placed his hand on his son's shoulder. \"Are you tired?\" he asked.\n\nThe young minister smiled and shook his head, \u201cNo, not very.\" Both men\n\nturned and walked slowly across the lawn towards the house. \"And your - most\n\nremarkable wedding service, it went smoothly?\"\n\n\"Yes, oh yes. When I prayed, 1 asked them to kneel. I think I did right\n\nThe father chose to ignore the note of query in his son's reply. Their feet\n\nwere sounding on the gravel before the house, when he suddenly said 'If the\n\nreasons for most marriages were stated you would be astounded at the ingenuity\n\nof your feilow men - and perhaps appalled at their courage. Fortunately, that\n\nis not our business.\"\n\nAt this remark a look of uneasiness and annoyance came on the young man's\n\nface. He shook his father\u2019s shoulder gently. \"You old cynic\" he said with a\n\nlaugh. As Mr Sorleyson was long past the age when the epithet could be\n\nconsidered a compliment he did not smile in reply. In silence the two men\n\nmounted the worn steps of the manse.\n\nChapter Two\n\nThe farm of Rathgard sat crescent-shaped on a low green hill screened by\n\nbeech-trees from the misty winds that rose from the lough in the winter. on\n\nsummer evenings the cream-washed homestead eyed by the setting sun, blushed\n\nwarmly under the dark foliage. Swelling gently from the shores of Strangford\n\nLough, the hill had borne habitation for centuries. Behind the dwelling-house\n\nlay an ancient rath from whence an earlier people had looked down on the\n\nsinious waters of the lough, how nothing more martial was heard than the cry\n\nof a cock, or the low piping of bees from the seven hives which sat in the\n","Type":"Text"}}]