[{"node":{"title":"Hanna034","Collections":"Part One","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna034","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Funeral, Infinite","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna034","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/Hanna034_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"29\n\n\"Be comforted' ho said to Sarah. 1 hope to see you at church on Sunday.\"\n\nHe included both women In his glance, then he hurried away to take his place\n\nat the head of the mourners beside Hamilton.\n\nSarah stood with the other women at the head of the loanen watching\n\nthe funeral procession wind slowly among the fields and vanish in a fold\n\nof the road. But she followed it unseeingiy as she brooded over Sorleyson\u2019s\n\nremarks. And the more she thought on them, so anger and revolt stirred in\n\nher. To her simple mind, the idea of a vast overleaning spirit, ever\n\npresent, which with infinite patience followed the coming-in and going-out\n\nof a human being for eighty years, and then, at a pre-ordained time plucked\n\nhim from the world, bore me signs of an ultimate responsibility, but now\n\nshe suspected, and her anger rose at the thought, that Sorleyson had bent\n\na fortuitious and tragic occurence to buttress his own beliefs and teachings,\n\nam had in some way robbed the lustre of Andrew\u2019s self-sacrifice.\n\nWhen the last trap had disappeared Agnes -Simpson went back across the\n\nclose. \u201cWe\u2019d better be getting redd up, for they\u2019ll be coming back soon,\n\nshe said. Martha and Sarah followed her back to the farm.\n\nAs they were about to enter the house Martha turned to her daughter and\n\nsaid in a low voice \u201d1 was wondering what they\u2019ll dae about us, now the old\n\nman\u2019s gone, did Hmailton say anything?\"\n\n\u201cHe wants us tae bide on, he says.\u201d\n\n\u201cWell, we could dae that. I don\u2019t doubt but one or t\u2019other of them will\n\nget married soon.\"\n\nHer daughter turned on her in a blaze of anger. \u201cWhat makes ye say\n\nthat; she cried, striking her hand on the doorpost. \u201cYou\u2019re talking daft,\n\nmother!\u201d She strode ahead into the kitchen while Martha gazed after her\n\nin fear and amazement.\n","Type":"Text"}}]