[{"node":{"title":"Hanna096","Collections":"Part Two","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna096","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Tense, Anger","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna096","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/Hanna096_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"90\n\nChapter One.\n\nThe days that followed in Rathard were tense and silent. Hamilton\nproved fiercely adamant, determined to give up nothing: yet he lacked the\ncourage to ask the woman to give up Frank. There was nothing further to\nbe hidden now from any one of them. The brothers moved warily in each\nother's presence, knowing that a sudden action was fraught with violence.\nAnd Sarah went about the house, eyes and ears strained to catch every word\nand gesture. Sometimes when her mind became tired and numb, she felt that\nshe was watching a scene and she had neither sympathy nor blame for the\nwoman she saw. Yet when she was nakedly conscious of what was happening\nto her she never wavered in her calm attention to the men, never setting\none above the other. And all the time her fear was being dissipated by a\nmounting pride fed by all the humiliating years when she was a girl. She\nhad two men.\n\nFrank quickly realised that this new relationship with Sarah meant\nvery much to his brother, and though he called on jealousy, he called in\nvain, and his anger weakened. At times as he thought of himself, he felt\na desire to laugh. There was something insanely comic that this should\nhave come about where his father and mother had lived and moved a few\nmonths ago.\n\nOf the three of them Hamilton was the least disturbed. He saw\nclearly that his brother's relationship with the woman was a chancy\nthing, rooted in pride and appetite. He himself asked nothing from\nher that she was not prepared to give, but he had raised crops on\nstony soil before.\n","Type":"Text"}}]