[{"node":{"title":"Hanna049","Collections":"Part One","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna049","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Silence, Fields","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna049","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/Hanna049_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"44\n\nfor. Sarah's mother with her cold reproachful look. As if he were bound\n\nto go when she said, go; and come when she said, come. To hell with ye,\n\nhe said inwardly, you\u2019re nothing to me.\n\nBut his gesture stirred the old woman. Not content with knowing\n\nthat her silence filled both the young people with remorse and anger\n\nshe turned to her daughter, \u2019 Where were ye, when I was at church?\u201d she\n\nasked.\n\n\"We went over the fields to the head o\u2019 the brae\" answered the\n\ngirl without raising her eye3 from her plate.\n\n\u201cWaren\u2019t ye left tae look after the house?\" demanded Martha.\n\n\"There now, Martha\" interrupted Frank angrily, \"the house didna\n\nrun away.\"\n\nMrtha ignored him. Her whole attention was fixed on her daughter.\n\n\u201dSince when hae ye taken to skiltin the fields on a sabbath? Look at\n\nyourself - you\u2019re as tossed and through-other as if you\u2019d been doing a\n\nday\u2019s work. What ways that to behave on the Sabbath?\"\n\nSarah sprang up from the table* \"Lay me alone!\u201d she cried. \"I\u2019ll\n\ngo out in the fields when I want, Sunday or any other day!\u201d\n\nMartha had risen to her feet also, her face flushed and fingers\n\nplucking at her apron. Hamilton, who had been eating stolidly during\n\nall this talk, now rapped the table irritably with his spoon. \"Sit\n\ndown, Martha,\" he said \"and let us get on wi\u2019 our dinner.\"'\n\nMartha turned on him. \"Listen to me, Hamilton Echlin, and you\n\nSarah, and you Frank. If there\u2019s not a charge in this house I'm going\n\ntae leave it and go back tae Banyil. God forgive me - I should ha\u2019\n\nspoken out before. But I\u2019m no going to see my daughter run about a\n\nheathen, if the memory o\u2019 your father won\u2019t send yous t\u2019church, as\n","Type":"Text"}}]