[{"node":{"title":"Hanna187","Collections":"Part Two","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna187","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Townland, Dancers","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna187","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/Hanna187_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff161\n\nhim on the roadside as several young men and women, Roman\nCatholics from a townland beyond Ravara, set themselves to\ndance to the piper's music. The others fell silent, not\nquite sure what to make of this, watching shyly and with\npleasure, and nodding and smiling to each other in the dusk.\nAnd when the dancers ceased the people on the roadside\napplauded with shouts and handclaps.\n\nAndrew watched the shuttling dancers with a smile of\ndelight. When they had finished he looked up with a laugh\nat the men. Then his interest seemed to be distracted by\nsomething else. He sat very silent between Hamilton's knees,\npeering through the gloom at the people on the other side\nof the road, suddenly he raised his finger and turning to\nPetie said, \"I know that man laughing wi' Eileen Purdy.\"\n\"Dae ye, son?\" nodoed Petie, absently, and turned again to\nHamilton, hut the boy felt Hamilton's knees grow hard\nand rigid and suddenly he felt afraid. The man behind him\nraised his eyes under his hanging brows and examined the\nfaces of the men opposite them. He put his hand on the\nboy's shoulder and said \"was that the man ye heard them\nwords frae, Andra?\" The boy was silent, but Hamilton\nraised him up end turned him round so that he could see his\nface. He did not need to ask again. The crest-fallen and\nfrightened face ol the child answered him.\n\nHe thrust the boy into Petie\u2019s arms and stood up. His\naction was so abrupt that it escaped none of the people\nseated opposite him. The brown-faced laugning young man\nsaw it too, and his glance shifted for a moment to Andrew.\nHe withdrew his arm from Aileen's waist and eased himself\nup on the grass, his eyes fixed on the man clambering\nslowly down the opposite bank towards him. Several of the\nyounger men had applauded ironically when Hamilton stood up,\nas though he were about to sing. But there was such an\nimpression of malignance about that slow groping step and\nout-thrust head that they fell silent. Everyone watched\nhim as he stepped slowly over the verge. \"What's wrong\n","Type":"Text"}}]