[{"node":{"title":"Hanna014","Collections":"Part One","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna014","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Flirting, Reaper","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna014","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/Hanna014_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"9\n\ndaughter to live in the Echlins\u2019 house. The women were given the two\n\nlower rooms of the house, one as a bedroom and one as a living room, She\n\neffect of the Gomartins moving in became quickly evident. Ir. the house,\n\nmeals were more punctual and a greater variety of dishes appeared on the\n\ntable. Beds were no longer confused heaps of malodorous clothes. Outside,\n\nin the work around the' f\u00bbrm, Martha and Gar ah took their share of the\n\nharvesting. Sarah had an amazing capacity for hard work, -he was deft\n\nand quick in her movements, and brought her strength to the point where it\n\nwould have greatest effect, she sould have been considered' a graceful girl,\n\nbut she neutralised that by her cold and detached expression.\n\nThe Echlins and the Gomartins were members of the same Presbyterian\n\ncongregation, and on Sundays the five members of the two families drove in\n\nthe trap to the meeting-house. It had been the custom of the two young men,\n\nwhen the horse was stabled and the trap put away, to join the young men and\n\nwomen in the churchyard where they spent the few minutes before the service\n\nbegan in talking and flirting with each other. On the second Sabbath after\n\nthey had driven to the church with the Gomartins, Frank was surprised to see\n\nhis brother hasten into the church with only a nod to his old companions, he\n\nsat on a flat gravestone, gazing thoughtfully at the doorway through which\n\nHamilton had disappeared, and quite unmindful of the talk of the young men\n\naround him.\n\nIhe rain and winds which had beaten the corn until it lay tangled like\n\nthe hair of a sleeping man, gave way to serene weather and the harvesters\n\neked out each hour of light in the mellow August evening. Andrew opened\n\nthe fields with his scythe, Hamilton or Frank rode the reaper, while Martha,\n\nSarah and Peter Sampson, a labouring man, gathered and tied. Behind them\n\nAndrew stocked the shealves. Franks satisfaction at Sarah mild indifference\n","Type":"Text"}}]