[{"node":{"title":"Lingard016","Collections":"Chapter 2","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard016","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"McConkey, Sadie","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard016","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/Lingard016_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff14\n\nfirst time she Linda had ever seen him angry and it made her feel a little\nafraid. He was usually very peaceable, much more so than Sadie.\n\n\"You don\u2019t know do you?\" said Linda. \"I\u2019m sure she doesn't tell\nyou everything.\"\n\n\"She would have told me if she'd met Kevin again, I'm sure of\nthat.\"  .\n\n\"You were kind of soft on had a bit of a notion of his sister weren't hadn't you?\"\n\n\"I wasn't soft on her did not. I just thought she was anice girl.\"\n\n\"She's a Mick and she'll probably have twelve kids.\"\n\n\"What's that to dox with it? I wasn't going to marry her.\nI was only fourteen at the time.\"\n\nHe began to walk again. Linda tagged along beside him but he\nwas hardly aware of her. He was thinking about Brede's soft brown\neyes and her quiet smile. He had not thought of her for years.\nThere was no point in thinking of her.\n\n\"Don't be angry with me.\" Linda's small warm hand crept in to\nhis. \"I didn't mean any harm, honest I didn't, Tommy.\"\n\nHe sighed. \"O.K.\"\n\n\"Shall we get some choclotae in Mrs McConkey's before we go to\nthe pictures?\"\n\nMrs McConkey kept a small shop in the next street. It sold every-\nthing from sweets to sticking plaster. She was reading the evening\nnewspaper with her bsosom resting on the counter. Every year\nher bosom increased until, as Sadie predicted, she might have to\ntake on a larger shop to accommodate it.\n","Type":"Text"}}]