[{"node":{"title":"Hanna032","Collections":"Part One","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna032","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Unbidden, Funeral","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna032","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/Hanna032_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"27\n\ncarriages are here.\u201d\n\n\"In a moment, Hamilton,\" replied the clergyman. \"God moves in strange\n\nways, Sarah. The old were taken and the young, we hope, will profit by this\n\nexperience.  He would have gone across to Hamilton, but Sarah laid her hand\n\non his arm. \"I've something to tell you, Mr Sorleyson. Andrew wasn't taken\n\nbecause he was old, and we weren't spared because we were young. I saw him\n\nleave go of the boat and swim into the fog. If he hadn't done that, there\u2019s\n\nno telling but all four of us would have gone.\"\n\nSorleyson was about to reply but Hamilton spoke first, \"Away and bring\n\nyour mother down, Sarah, and open Frank\u2019s door so that he can hear the prayer.\"\n\nHis face was dark and scowling and she knew that he was angry at all this\n\nchatter round the dead body of his father, even as she left t^e room the words\n\nrose unbidden . . . and if it hadn't been for you, Frank and me would have\n\ndrowned ... She felt full of remorse, and an urgent desire to please him.\n\nWhen she had brought her mother down to the parlour, Sorleyson prayed.\n\nSarah silently ran her nail over the worn plush on the arm of the chair at\n\nwhich she knelt, as Soleyson's words filtered through to her: \". . . my son,\n\ndespise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him.\n\nFor whom the lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.\n\nShe had ventured a little too far, having words like with the minister\n\nbefore Hamilton. Until the funeral left she would stay in the background behind\n\nher mother and Agnes, silent, only coming forward when she was needed. That was\n\nher place as a servant in the house. In the meantime, anyway, until her false\n\nstep had been forgotten, Sorleyson cleared his throat before he launched into\n\nhis special prayer for the occasion: 0 God, ho hast in thy great mercy spared\n\nthe green and taken the ripe; teach, we beseech Thee, thy sons and daughters\n\ngathered here, that nature framed by Thy almighty hand can never be tamed to\n","Type":"Text"}}]