[{"node":{"title":"Hanna105","Collections":"Part Two","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna105","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Farmhouse, Kindly","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna105","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/Hanna105_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"99\n\nyou think, Sarah, that by sending your mother some money every week you have\ndischarged your obligations, then I can only hope that you\u2019ll be treated\ndifferently by your own children\". Sarah was about to speak, but the minister\nwaved his hand fretfully to stop her. \"Let us consider what\u2019s to be done.\n\nHer legs and arms are badly swollen and she can fend for herself no longer.\nNow what do you mean to do about it? Will you go back and stay with her for\na while?\u201d Mr. Sorleyson thrust his head forward aggressively. His round\nbespectacled face, usually so mild, was pink, and a frown creased his forehead\nwith unaccustomed wrinkles.\n\n\u201dI\u2019ll go down to her, Mr. Sorleyson. If she\u2019s fit to move, I\u2019ll bring\nher back here with me\".\n\n\"Oh,\u201d exclaimed Mr. Sorleyson, rather taken aback. He felt like a man\nwho had thrust violently against a door only to find it ajar. \"Well - well,\nthat would be vary satisfactory. But will she be happy here?\u201d he demanded\nwith some of his former brusqueness.\n\n\u201dI\u2019ll see that she\u2019s well looked after,\" answered Sarah in the same\nflat tone.\n\nIt was only when Mr. Sorleyson was on the road home that the\nsignificance of Sarah\u2019s promise to take her mother back to the Echlins\nstruck him. Was that a strange thing for a servant girl in her master\u2019s\nfarmhouse to say? Mr. Sorleyson wasn\u2019t quite sure. He had tried very\nhard ever since he had come to this congregation to understand the ways\nof the country people. He had learned by trial and error, and because\nhe was a kindly man, eager to help, he had learned quickly. There had\nbeen the occasion (he had only been in the manse a few weeks) when he\n","Type":"Text"}}]