{"nodes":[{"node":{"title":"Lingard121","Collections":"Chapter 13","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard121","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Weeding, Department","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard121","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/Lingard121_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff113\n\nCHAPTER THIRTEEN\n\nThe dog, who was sitting on the garden path, saw her first and got up\nwith a welcoming bark. B Mr Blake looked up from his weeding.\n\n\"Sadie! Anything wrong?\"\n\n\"No\"\n\nHe came to the gate.\n\n\"You don't look your usual bouncey self.\"\n\n\"It's just that I've got the sack and Mrs KcConkey is dead.\"\n\n\"I see.\"\n\n\"I wanted someone to talk to. So I thought I'd come and see you.\"\n\n\"Come imHikE away in.\"\n\nThey sat in the kitchen. Sadie rested her folded arms on the kitchen\ntable.\n\n\"We always used to make fun of Mrs McConkey,\" she sighed. \"We\nwould shout names at her when we were small and then run like blazes\nbefore she could get the hold of us. She never did beacuse she was\ntoo fat. And now she's dead.\"\n\n\"Aye, it's bad, Sadie, there's no denying it. Scarcely a day\ngoes by without someabody getting killed, but when it's person you\nknow it's not so easy to take.\"\n\n\"It's not easy at all,\" said Sadie. She told him then alabout the\nwoman in the hat department.\"I don't know what I'm going to do now.\nI'll have to get something else before I tell my mother.\"\n\nMr Blake looked thoughtful. He stroked the dog's coat, flattening\nthe fur until Jack purred contentedly.\n\n\"Sadie, I could be doing with a bit of help. I used to have a daily\nwoman and then she got a bad back and couldn't come any more. I could\n\n(over)\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"966"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard122","Collections":"Chapter 13","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard122","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Domesticated, Blake","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard122","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/Lingard122_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff114\n\nthan nothing, wouldn\u2019t it?\"\n\n\"Mr Blake, do you mean you\u2019d like me to work for you?\"\n\nMr Blake xi laughed at Sadie's astonished face. \"Why not?\"\n\n\"3ut I'm not very good at that sort of thing. I got the lowest\nmarks in my class for Domestic.\"\n\n\"Marks don't always mean anything. I wouldn't want all that much\ndone. A bit of clearing up and washing, and maybe you could cook\nmy lunch?\"\n\n\"Are you serious?\"\n\n\"CompletelyAbsolutely.\"\n\n\"All right,\" she said slowly, trying to adjust to an imagethe idea of herself\nasbeing domesticated. \"I'll have a go.\"\n\n\"Good! It'll do me goodcheer me up to see you coming in every morning. The\nother woman shad a long face and was always complaining about her\nback.\"\n\n\"You don't need any cherring up, Mr Blake\" said Sadie, making him laugh again.\n\nThey agreed on rates of payment; and in addition Sadie wouldwas to be\ngiven her lunch and bus fares.\n\nShe insistedsaid that she would like to start work straight away. Her earlier mood was\nforgotten; she was gripped now h by a fever to workfor action. Mr Blake went\nback to his gardening, leaving her to examine the array of vacuum clecleaners, mops and dusters. She decided to scrub the kitchen floor\nfirst, not that it looked as if it really needed it, but because it\nwas the kind of job that made her feel virtuous and hard-working.\nFor Mr Blake she wanted to be hard-working. She sang as she scrubbed\nand found pleasure in sitting back on heels afterwards to look at the\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"967"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard123","Collections":"Chapter 13","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard123","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Peter, Children","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard123","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/Lingard123_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff115\n\ngleaming wet floor. Her mother would never believe it! The thought of her mother spurred her on.\n\nShe vacuumed and dusted the sitting room, lifting all the photo-\ngraphs and replacing them carefully. It was funny how she did not\nmind doing these jonb's in someone else\u2019s house?. She would have hated\nit at home. And when she looked out of the window she saw Mr Blake\nbenidng and stooping and pottering about. It was very much better\nthan the hat department.\n\nFor lunch she cooked mince and potatoes and carrots. The mince\nwas slightly burnt and the carrots a little hard but Mr Blake declared\nthat he did not mind a bit, in fact he rather liked well-done mince.\n\nAfter\"I\u2019ll get better with practice,\" promised Sadie.\n\nAfter lunch they took Jack for a warlk. There was a prkpark close by\nin which the dog could run freely off the leash. He knew most of\nthe small children playing under the eye of their mothers. He\ntrotted round them sniffing and licking them.\n\n\"There\u2019s Moira Henderson,\" said Mr Blake, when they came to the\nswing park. He nodded at a pretty dark-haired girl in her twenties who was\nsitting on a bench tending holdingwith a baby on her knee. She was watch-\ning two smaller children on the swings. \"She\u2019s a neighbour of mine.\nNice girl. Come on and meet her.\"\n\nHe introduced Sadie to herand Moira and then they joined herall sat together on the bench.\nThe xx baby was pressing up onto his feet, treading his mother\u2019s lap,\npulling at her hair with his small fat fist. From time to time she\ncalled out to the other two children. \"Watch what you\u2019re doing,\nPeter. No higher, Deirdre!\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"968"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard124","Collections":"Chapter 13","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard124","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Hendersons, Crucifix","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard124","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/Lingard124_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff116\n\n\"Not much peace, have you, Moira?\" said Mr Blake.\n\n\"No,\" she laug said, with a laugh.\n\nThey walked back home with her and the children. Deirdre put her\nhand into Sadie's and clung to it tightly. She looked up from time to time into Sadie's face. \"You seem to have made a new friend\", said Mr Blake. When they reached the\nHendersons' gate  a few doors along from Mr Blake's, she Moira asked if\nthem would like to come in for a cup of teacoffee.\n\n\"That would be nice, wouldn;t it, Sadie?\" said Mr Blake.\n\nSadie nodded.\n\nMoira'sHer sitting room was identical in size and shape to Mr Blake's,\nbut very differently furnished. It was modern and colourful, and\ninstead of photographs, paintings covered the walls.\n\n\"What lovely paintings!\" cried Sadie. They looked vivid and\nexciting to her: they were alive.\n\n\"Moira did them,\" said Mr Blake. \"She's a painter.\"\n\n\"Was, you mean!\" said Moira. \"I don't get time any more.\"\n\n\"You will again, one of these days.\"\n\n\"In five years time!\u201d By then I'll probably have forgotten how\nto hold a brush.\"\n\nSadie and Mr Blake stayed for an hour. \"That was good crack,\"\nsaid Sadie on the way homeback to his house. \"I like a good chat. And I liked Moira.\"\n\n\"I thought you would.\"\n\n\"I saw she'd a crucifix in the hall. Is she a Catholic then?\nShe didn't look all that like one.\"\n\nMr Blake laughedwas amused. \"Yes, she's a Catholic.\"\n\n\"I thought the place would have been smothered with holy pictures\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"969"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard125","Collections":"Chapter 13","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard125","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Troubles, Moira","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard125","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/Lingard125_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff117\n\nand statues. \u201d\n\n\"You've got some funny ideas, Sadie. By the way, Mike, Moira's husband, is\na Protestant.\u201d\n\n\"Is that right? xxykExfc^fexEXxixixsxitS:She seems happy.\u201d\n\n\u201d1 think she is. Oh, I don't suppose everything's a bed of roses\nall the time - that would be too much to expect - but they survive\nall their troubles.\u201d\n\nThey went up Mr Blake's path, into the house. \"It's easier if\nyou're middle-class,\" said Sadie. He looked at her. \"She A Protestant and\nCathlic getting married, I mean,\" she added.\n\nHYss^xi: Mr Blake nodded. \"Yes, I know. It's fair comment. Some\nof the people round here might not be too fond of a mixed marriage\nbut it's not likely they're going to chuck a petrol bomb through a\ntheir window.\u201d\n\n\"That\u2019s what'd happen if you were to do  thatit in my street.\u201d\n\nSadie thought about Moirax and Mr Blake all the way home on the\nbus. She had h It had been a most interesting day. She was in high\nspirits when she swung open the kitchen door.\n\nHer mother and father sat at the table looking grim-faced.\n\n\"What's up?\u201d asked Sadie.\n\n\"That might be for you to tell us,\u201d said her father.\n\n\"It would be nice not to have to depend on Linda Mullet for all\nour information,\u201d said her mother.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"970"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard126","Collections":"Chapter 13","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard126","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Children, Housework","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard126","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/Lingard126_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff118\n\nSadie sat down. \"Linda Mullet? What's she been saying now?\"\n\n\"She told us you'd got the sack.\" said Mr Jackson.\n\n\"Is that all?\"\n\n\"What do you mean - is that all?\" demanded Mrs Jackson. She pursed\nher mouth. \"What else could she have told us?\"\n\n\"Nothing. jixatxdiExxfcaxH&xxirazgfcixkaEkxiHfcaxkErxHKiiiEEis Anyway,\nI've got another job.\" Sadie told them about Mr Blake and his villa,\nhow she had washed the floor and cooked the dinner.\n\n\"You're joking,\" said her mother. \"You doing domestic work? SI\ndon't believe it.\"\n\n\"Well, you'll have to,\"said Sadie,\" for it's true.\"\n\nNext morning she cleaned Mr Blake's windows, inside and out.\nShe rubbed till her elbow was tired and the glass glistened. Then\nshe stepped back to admire the shine, reaching out here and there to\nobliterate any final traces of a smear.\n\n\"Does it give you a glow of satisfaction?\"\n\nSadie looked round to see Moira Henderson at the gate, with her\npram three children.\n\n\"Yes,\" she said,\" it does.\"\n\n\"Good.\" Moira laughed.\n\nSadie went down the path, polish in one hand, rag in the other,\nand leant on the gate to talk to Moira.\n\n\"I wish I could get a glow of satisfaction out of housework,\"\nsaid Moira. \"Maybe I don't do it well enough.\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"971"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard127","Collections":"Chapter 13","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard127","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Bargain, Jackson","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard127","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/Lingard127_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff119\n\n\u201dI expect you get that from your painting?\"\n\nMira nodded. \"AndThat's why I miss it nowso much.\"\n\n\"I was thinking about it on the way home on the bus last night,\" said\nSadie. \"And I thought I could look after your kids in the afternoons\nuntil I got another job and you could paint.\"\n\n\"Sadie, what a great idea! But I'd pay you of course.\"\n\n\"Oh no.\"\n\n\"Oh yes! I've been vaguely thinking of getting someone to look\nafter the kids. Mike's always gibing on to me about it and I never\ndo anything. He's keen for me to start painting again.\"\n\nThey shook hands on the bargain over the top of the gate. Sadie\nbegan at the Hendersons after lunch the same day. At tea-time she announced\nthat she now had two jobs.\n\n\"I'm working as a nanny in the afternoons,\" she said loftily.\n\n\"Minding kids?\" said her mother.\"You?\"\n\n\"Why not?\" I've\\been a kidx myself, haven't I?\"\n\n\"And never out of troublemischief,\" groaned her mother. If there was any trouble going in the neighbourhood I could be sure you were there.\"\n\n\"That helps me to know whatBest expereince there is for looking after kids\", said Sadie. \" I know what they're going to do before they do it.\"\n\n\"I should think Sadie would keep them in line all right,\" said\nTommy.\n\nMrs Jackson scratched the scalp between her rollsers. \"Honest,\nSadie Jackson, I never know what you're at from one day to the\nnext.\"\n\nJust as well, thought Sadie, thinking of Kevin, and unconsciously\nsmiling. He mother, noticing her smile, frowned suspiciously.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"972"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard128","Collections":"Chapter 13","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard128","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Neighbourhood, Blether","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard128","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/Lingard128_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff120\n\nOn Friday Kevin came to Mr Blake's. He looked almost his old self except forstill had the bandage around his head and thea slight limp but apart from that was almost back to himself.\n\n\"You look a new man,\" said Sadie,taking his hands in hers.\n\n\"I\u2019ve been resting.\" He grinned. \"Every time I moved two yards\nmy mother yelled at me.\" What have you been doing?\"\n\n\"Not resting. Wait till you hear!\"\n\nNr Blake took Jack out for a long walk before supper. Sadie and\nKevin sat on the sfettee and she gave him an account of her week.\n\n\"Sounds like you know half the neighbourhood by now# \" he said.\n\n\"I like to pass the time of day when I go in and out of the shops.\n\n\"In other words, you\u2019re a blether!\"\n\nThey laughed together. She rested her head against his shoulder.\nShe felt happy.\n\n\"Maybe it\u2019s as well I nearly collapsed along by the Lagan,\" said\nKevin. \"Though at the time I didn't think so!\"\n\n\"Mr Blake/is the best thing that ever happened to us.\"\n\n\"We must be careful that no one gets to know about Mr Blakehim and us.\"\n\nSadie nodded. \"You're right there. I wouldn\u2019t like antything to\nhappen to Mr Blake\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"973"}}]}