[{"node":{"title":"Hanna031","Collections":"Part One","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna031","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Drowned, Heavenly","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna031","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/Hanna031_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"26\n\n\u201cThe sound mightn\u2019t have carried to me wi\u2019 the wind, anyway, But it\u2019s\n\nterrible to think o\u2019t! Ye might have been drowned!\u201d Then Pentland recognised\n\nthe effect hi a words had on Sarah. Colour glowed in her pale face and her\n\neyes moved shyly and restlessly as if she was about to fly from him. lie\n\nturned away a little, endeavouring to compose his mouth and hands and voice.\n\nHe glowed inwardly, and at the same moment a shadow of fear darkened his\n\nmind. In the silence that followed Sarah had overcome her confusion which\n\nwas much more simple and direct, \"Well, I wasn\u2019t, that\u2019s all\u201d she said,\n\nshrugging her shoulders.\n\nSurely that was not all, . Miss Gomartin\u201d said a voice behind them,\n\nstartled, the girl turned t see Mr Sorleyson regarding her from the doorway.\n\nThe minister came farther into the room, nodding to Pentland whom he had met\n\nin the close. Sorleyson's complexion was fair and his eyes, brown and\n\nsmiling, were magnified a little by his spectacles. Ids voice although\n\ncomnonplace, was clear, and everything he said was marked by an upward\n\ninflexion which gave it a note of diffidence arid willingness to please.\n\n\"Surely you wont dismiss your escape from drowning in such a casual manner,\n\nMss Gomartin? I've hoard the whole tragic story from Hamilton, and its a\n\nmatter of deep thankfulness to our Heavenly Father that you and Hamilton and\n\n\u201crank are here today, although we grieve for the loss of our brother, Andrew.\u201d\n\nAs he finished, Hamilton entered the roam and seeing that the minister did not\n\nrequire him, turned to the window.\n\nSarah would not have answered Sorleyson's mild reproof had he not\n\nmentioned Andrew\u2019s name. Ham it brought up again, in vivid and painful detail,\n\nher last sight of the old man as he struck out from the overladen boat. \"And\n\nwhy should God have let Andrew drown? He was a good man, Mr Sorleyaon.\"\n\nHamilton turned impatiently fro: the window. \"Mr Sorleyson\u201d he said, the\n","Type":"Text"}}]