[{"node":{"title":"Hanna145","Collections":"Part Two","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna145","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Reverend, Relationship","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna145","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/Hanna145_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff139\n\nChapter Ten\n\nThe departure of the Reverend Mr Sorleyson and his wife was\nhardly spoken of in Rathord. So for as Hamilton and Frank were\nconcerned, any thought they had on the matter was one of relief,\nand as the Echlins had by this time completely severed themselves\nfrom Ravara church, they did not expect a renewed effort on the part\nof Sorleyson\u2019s successor to interfere in the relationship between\nthem and Sarah.\n\nWhen she first heard the news, Sarah dimly associated the\nminister\u2019s departure with the afternoon that he had come up to the\nfarm. But as she had already thrust the memory from her mind, (in\nsome way that she could not explain, it was associated with the\nmemory of her mother) and because she was incapable of understanding\nwhat a disturbance the encounter had created in the more sensitive\nmind of the man, the news roused little interest in her, and was soon\nforgotten.\n\nIsolated though they were, situated high on the hill-farm and\nalmost sufficient to themselves, the inhabitants of Rathard were not\nunaware of the criticism of their conduct by the people of the town-\nlands. The irregular menage of Rathard might have been rectified by\nthe intervention of someone with the moral authority of a clergyman.\nBut the people knew as well as he did, that his power to bring about\na more normal relationship in any home was limited to counsel and\nwarning. And the warning was, in the last extreme, limited to such\nincorporeal things us the displeasure of Providence. Having no\n","Type":"Text"}}]