[{"node":{"title":"Lingard133","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard133","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Cruel, Scrapyard","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard133","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/Lingard133_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff125\n\n\"I don't care if he's pleased.   Let it lieYou keep out of it, Kate.\"\n\nThey reached the scrapyard. She put her hand on his arm. \"Just\na minute, Kevin. I want a word with you.\"\n\n\"All right.\" He sixghed inside himself.\n\n\"Is it all over with us?\" Her blue eyes were round and tearful,\nframed by the false lashes that he had often jokinggly called road sweepers\n\n\"But Kate...\" He bit his lip. \"Well, it's not as if we were\ngoing steady or anything.\"\n\n\"I thought we were going steady,\" she cired cried.\n\n\"But I didn't,\" he said bluntly.\n\n\"You're cruel and horrible, Kevin McCoy, and I hate you.'\"\n\n\"Now look, Kate - \u00bb\n\nBut she was gone, running towards her house, crying no doubt, ready\nto fall into the arms of her mother. It was as well that she had\ngone for he had not known what else to say to her. What could he say?\nHe hated it when girls cried. He was uncomfortable, did not know what\nto do. He had never seen Sadie cry. Brede wept sometimes, very\nquietly, deep down in her bed.\n\nHe continued up the road to his house. Brede was there cooking\nthe meal, keeping the children in order. She had been given a week's\nleave from the nursery to look after the family.\n\n\"Where have vou been?\" she asked, pushing a lock of hair back from her forehead with the back of her hand.\n\n\"Don't you start?!\" he answered irritably.\n\n\"Why, who else has been at you?\"\n\n\"I met MKate MaloneKelly on mythe way up.\"\n\nBrede sighed. \"Have you been upsetting her?\"\n","Type":"Text"}}]