[{"node":{"title":"Hanna253","Collections":"Part Three","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna253","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Joe, Andrew","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna253","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/Hanna253_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff246\n\nMartha pushed her way among them, lifted the\nteapot from the fire, and carried it to the table.\n\"Tea\u2019s ready now,\" she called. \"Come on and get it\nbefore its cold.\" The men moved clumsily around the\ntable until each had settled into his familiar chair.\nThe tea was poured out, the cups handed round, and\neveryone stretched forward for bread. The meal was\nhalfway through before Frank noticed that Joe\u2019s egg\nwas still unbroken. He tapped it with his spoon.\n\"Dammit, I thought ye had emptied it and turned it\nend up! that's wrong wi' it, man?\" They were all\nlooking at Joe now. \"And you\u2019ve no bread on your\nplate,\" cried Sarah. \"Have ye lost your appetite?\"\nHe pushed his plate away and studied the faces around\nthe table before he spoke. \"To tell ye the truth,\"\nhe said at last, \"I dont feel like meat. I had a\nterrible thing happen to me today.\" He paused again\nand looked at them. \"My father told me to leave the\nhouse.\"\n\nSarah spoke first. \"For why?\" she demanded\ncurtly. But Joe knew that she knew before he answered\nher. \"He wanted me to give up going with Martha. When\nI said I wouldn\u2019t, he turned me out.\"\n\n\"Your father turned ye out, eh?\" repeated Sarah,\nwith a harsh edge to her voice. \"And why did he fault\nMartha?\"\nAs Joe sought feverishly for an answer, Hamilton\nrapped the table with his hard fingers. \"Its no affair\nof ours, Sarah, why Mr Skillen doesna want his son to\nkeep company with Martha. What concerns us is that Joe\nhas broken wi' his house, and its for us to decide what's\nbest.\" But when he had said that Hamilton fell silent,\nand it was plain to see by his face that what was best\neluded him as widely as it did Joe, Andrew, and pale-\nfaced Martha. But in Sarah's eyes a light slowly\n","Type":"Text"}}]