[{"node":{"title":"Hanna048","Collections":"Part One","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna048","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Chimney, Hatred","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna048","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/Hanna048_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"43\n\nIn n halting; manner, and keeping; his eyes fixed on the horse\u2019s ears,\n\nHamilton tried to apologise for his brother\u2019s lapse. The old woman\n\ngathered from his remarks that Frank and Sarah had disappeared from the\n\nhouse,\n\n\"Did she lay the table?\" Martha asked*\n\n\"I didn pay any heed\u201d answered Hamilton, touching up the horse,\n\n\"If it had been set you\u2019d have noticed it\" she said briefly.\n\nAs they turned off the road into the loanen they saw the blue smoke\n\nof a replenished fire rise from the chimney of trie farmhouse.\n\nFrank stood leaning over the half-door of tiro stable with his back\n\nto them as they drew up in the close, Hamilton unloosed the horse and\n\nled it out of the shafts, slipping the birchen over his arm. As he heard\n\nhis brother approach Frank unbolted the stable door and held it open, but\n\nHamilton checked the horse on the threshold, \u201cWhat came intae ye?\" he\n\ndemanded, scowling at the other. Frank smiled, \u201cI forgot all about the\n\nould one\" he answered. Although he smiled, his eyes were alert and he\n\nrocked gently on the balls of his feet, Hamilton stared at him for a\n\nmoment then he spat contemptously on the ground and led the horse into the\n\nstable. Frank loitered in the close until his brother appeared again, than\n\nwithout looking up or speaking, folio ed him into the house.\n\nThey sat down to the meal in silence. Frank, carefully watching the\n\nold woman, noted with apprehension that Sarah was doing the same, lie had\n\nhoped that the two women would have had it out before lie and Hamilton\n\ncame in.As Sarah rose to bring the rennet dish to the table he suddenly\n\nturned to Martha and opening his lips was about to speak. At his gesture\n\nshe looked up at him coldly and silently, -it the sight of her faded eyes\n\nand indrawn lips the words died in his throat. He felt a sudden hatred\n","Type":"Text"}}]