[{"node":{"title":"Hanna106","Collections":"Part Two","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna106","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Hinder, Minister","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna106","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/Hanna106_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"100\n\ncalled Into the little National school in Ravare. Only a dozen or so of the\n\nsmallest boys and girls were present. The old schoolmaster had explained that -\nthe elder children were kept at home to make the best of that one dry day in\nthe fields. \u201cBut their schooling!\u201d exclaimed Mr. Sorleyson. The old man\nsmiled and looked at him strangely. He had tried to dissuade Mr. Sorleyson\nfrom calling on the parents of the children. The very first men he had spoken\nto, one of his own elders, after listening to hie remonstrances, had laid down\nhis scythe and coming over to the hedge told him in as many words to attend to\nhis own affaire and not hinder their work under the drying sun that God had\ngranted them. Afterwards, when his resentment had gone, he laughed ruefully\nat the memory of the scowls on the faces of the two young urchins tying\nsheaves behind their father. But he learned that the most Important thing\nin the lives of farm people is saving their crops. As he turned into the\nmanse drive he paused to look up at tho farm of Rathard and tried to understand\nthe attitude of the woman there. Maybe she, too, was caught up in the relentless\ncycle of farm-work. It was a deceptive life, he thought, seemingly so slow\nand laborious and yet so all-consuming that people must at times forego their\nduties to themselves and others.\n\nSarah sat thinking when Sorleyson had gone. The minister\u2019s charge that\nshe should return to her mother, found her, in a certain sense, prepared.\nIt was an eventuality that she had already considered and now that it could\nno longer be avoided she proceeded, calmly and carefully, to reflect in what\nway it could be used to the least disadvantage. She did not give second\nthought to the suggestion that she should leave Rathard, even for a time.\nIf she did that there was no way of telling how long she would be away.\n","Type":"Text"}}]