[{"node":{"title":"Hanna051","Collections":"Part One","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna051","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Wrestling, Drudgery","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna051","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/Hanna051_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"46\n\nSarah stood with her hands clenched agonisingly together. She\n\nhad never dreamt that her mother would Jeopardise her comfortable life\n\nat Rathard for principles. 3he had forgotten easily and too soon that\n\nher mother was a spiritual and racial* descendant of the two Margarets\n\nwho, choking at their stakes in the rising waters of Solway, saw Christ\n\nand He wrestling, Martha's God was a terrible but hearkening God. Her\n\nevery word and thought was weighed on His fingertip. Before a faith\n\nsuch as that, comfort and a hearth and a little folding of the hands\n\nburned away like so ranch dross. But to Sarah the novelty of her new\n\nposition in life was too fresh for her not to appreciate the change\n\nfor the better in her fortunes. They had come as servants and labourers\n\nto Rathard, and now she at least, had attained the position of mistress\n\nin the Echlin household. It was not avarice, but the fear of returning\n\nto a life of drudgery that filled her with hatred as she stood between\n\nthe brothers, listening to the old woman.\n\n\u201cWill ye change your ways o\u2019 going, Sarah?\" her mother asked.\n\n\u201cThere's nothing wrong wi' my ways o' going\" the girl answered\n\nsullenly.\n\n\"Are ye going to do as your betters bid yo, and return to your\n\nchurch?\" persisted Martha.\n\nThe girl raised her head sharply, \u201dMy betters!\u201d she exclaimed, her\n\nface flushing in anger. \u201cSo that\u2019s it: Mr Sorleyson has been at ye -\n\nnow isn\u2019t that the truth!\u201d\n\n\u201cAye, that\u2019s the truth, your minister came down from his pulpit to\n\nbeg wi\u2019 me that my daughter would come back. That\u2019s what i had to endure\n\nin my own church.' The old woman\u2019s voice grew bitter, \"He said that\n\nFrank and Kami would remember their father, God forgive them, they hae\n","Type":"Text"}}]