[{"node":{"title":"Hanna038","Collections":"Part One","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna038","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Clergyman, Daughter","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna038","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/Hanna038_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"33\n\nand gleamed on her fair hair. Sorleyson considered her figure as she stood\n\nin the roseate light. Kr regretted the shapeless apron that hung from her\n\nwaist.\n\nThe minister picked up his hat from the dresser. \"Well, 1 must be away\"\n\nhe said. \"I hope to see you all on the Sabbath.\" He shook hands with both\n\nwomen, and they heard him salute Frank as he crossed the close.\n\n\"Ye heard what the minister said, Sarah?\" asked Martha when they were\n\nalone again.\n\n\"I did - I heard him rightly\" answered the girl irritably.\n\nMartha straightened herself and turned round. \"Aye, but did ye heed\n\nhim?\"\n\n\"Why should I heed him? i.hat has he to do wi\u2019 me?\"\n\n\"He\u2019s your clergyman.\"\n\n\"I didn\u2019t ask for him! Why does he come here interfering in my concern?\"\n\nIn her fumbling way Martha tried to explain what she meant. \"It isnt\n\nMr Sorleyson, daughter. It\u2019s what he stands for. He\u2019s the servant o\u2019 the\n\nChurch o\u2019 God - the Church that ye were reared in - and your folks afore, ye.\n\nYe can\u2019t prosper, Sarah, if ye forget your duty to God.\"\n\nHer daughter turned on her with strident voice. \"Aye! cur folks prospered,\n\ndidn't they, with their running tae Church on a Sunday! My father died on the\n\nroads, and ever since I can mind my life has been nothing else but slaving for\n\nother folk. And always (here she mimicked her mother cruelly) its 'be humble,\n\nSarah, God will reward ye.\u201d Well, I\u2019m tired o\u2019 it! My ways are my own. I get\n\nup in the morn tae my work, and at night I lie down in my bed, and if I fall\n\ndead in the midst o* it, there\u2019ll be little talk and less weeping!\"\n\n\"God, what have I done tae hear my own daughter talk like this! lark\n\nmy words, S^rah, ya\u2019ll see the day when you'll regret on your bended knees\n","Type":"Text"}}]