{"nodes":[{"node":{"title":"Lingard027","Collections":"Chapter 4","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard027","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Belfast Lough, Gantries","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard027","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/Lingard027_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff25\n\nCHAPTER FOUR\n\nSadie and Kevin sat on the top of Cave Hill looking down atwith    the city\nspread out below them. They looked down at the great sprawl of factories,\nand offices and houses that were gradually eating further and further\ninto the green countryside beyond. Into the midst of the town came\nBelfast Lough. It was blue now this eveningunder a blue, nearly cloudless sky, speckled\nwith ships and spiked by the shipyard gantries.\n\n\"I like looking down on the town, \" said Kevin.\n\n\"Me too, \"aid Sadie. \"It looks so peaceful. I wish it were!\"\"\n\nIt was peaceful up there on the hill with the wind placing round\ntheir faces and tousling their hair. Sadie sat with her knees up to her\nchin, hugging her legs. She felt at ease with Kevin though of course\nit was seldom she felt ill-at-ease with anybody, but she also felt a\nsort f contentment that she was unxused to.\n\n\"It\u2019s funny,\" she began.\n\n\"What?\" He turned on one elbow to look at her.\n\n\"I was just thinking a place looks better if you've got somebody\nwith you.\"\n\n\"Two pairs of eyeballs are better than one. As long as they're\nthe right two pairs of course.\"\n\nHe has a sweet tongue on him, she thought. He was gazing back\ndown at the city again. She stole a look at him. His face was strong>del>\nnot very broad but it was it was firm and had a look x suggestion of\nstrength about it; it was also deeply tanned, witht the look of one\nwho was seldom indoors. He probably went home only to sleep. She\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"872"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard028","Collections":"Chapter 4","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard028","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Bangor, Mothers","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard028","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/Lingard028_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff26\n\nunderstood the feeling of restlessness in him. She had it in herself.\n\nHe pointed down at the ships.\n\n\"Have you ever been in a boat, Sadie? A proper one?\"\n\n\"No. Only a row boat at Bangor.\"\n\nThey both laughed.\n\n\"We'll go to Bangor one day again, shallwill we?\" said Kevin. 'And\nI'll take you out in a row boat. I'll row you across the sea to\nScotland. How would you like that?\"\n\n\"I'd like it fine.\"\n\n\"You've devil enough in you for it, haven't you?\"\n\nHer eyes glinsted. \"My mother says I go out of the way to avoid it\nthe easy way round.\"\n\n\"If your mothers were to get together they would probably be xxxxx\nsaying the same things.\"\n\nThe words silenced them for they realised the impossibility of their\nmothers ever getting tohgether.\n\n\"Well,\" said Kevin lightly, jumping to his feet,\"shallWill we go?\"\nHe held out his hand to her.\n\nThey walked down the hill close together but not touching. Lights\nwere springing up gradually in the houses, the blue in the sky was\ndeepening streaks of pink and yellow swept across it, and each\nmoment it changed bringing another colour or hue and changing.\nEvery moment it looked different; new colours and shades merged and\ninfiltarated the blues, pinks, yellows, torquoise, red.\n\n\"Look at the sky,\" aid Sadie. She felt she had never seen a sky\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"873"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard029","Collections":"Chapter 4","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard029","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Coca-cola, Jukebox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard029","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/Lingard029_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27\n\nbefore.\n\nThey stopped to look at it and Kevin rested a hand on her shoulder.\nHis hand was warm and she liked the feel of it.\n\n\"It's a fair sight,\" said Kevin. \"You never see it properly\nfrom the street.\"\n\nHe held her hand as they descended the last part of the hill\nand kept hold of it once they had reached the bottom.\n\n\"Would you like some chips?\" he asked. \"My stomach feels in need\nof something tasty?.\"\n\nThey walked along the main road in towards the centre of the city.\nHe told her of some of the funny things they turned up in the scrap\nbusiness, and she recounted some amsuing tales of the women who came\ninto the big department store where she worked. She was on the\nhat counter at the momentshopped in the hat department.\n\n\"Hats!\" he said. \"I can't imagine you selling hats.\"\n\n\"Neither can I. You should see some of the women primping in\nfront of the mirrors cramming fancy bits of felt and feathers on ,\ntheir heads. And they're always wanting to you to tell them how\nnice they look.\"\n\nHe put up his hand to touch her silky fair hair briefly. \"I can't\nimagine you with a hat on your head.\"\n\nThey saw a Coca-Cola sign shining ahead and smelt the chips\nbefore they reached the cafe. They went inside. It was warm and\nbright and a juke box was playing. She sat down at an empty table,\nand he went to the counter to get their order.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"874"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard030","Collections":"Chapter 4","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard030","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Boyfriends, Catholic","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard030","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/Lingard030_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff28\n\nShe glanced around her. The xaf customers were nearly all teenaagers\nsitting over cups of coffee and Coca-Cola. At the other side of the\nroom she saw two girls she recognised: they worked in the same store.\nAt the moment she saw them, they saw her too.\n\nThey got up and came across to her.\n\n\"Hit thereyou, Sadie. What are you doing round here?'*\nG.-W-*\n\n\"I've been up on the Cave hill.\"\n\n\"On your ownlone?\"\n\n\"No.\" She nodded towards Kevin where he stood in the queue.\n\nThey looked him over carefully and rolled their eyes in approval.\n\n\"Handsome looking fella. Where did you pick him up?\"\n\n\"I didn't pick him up. I've known him a long time.\"\n\nThey examined him again with curiosity. The girls in the shop\nliked to spend their breaks talking about their boyfriends. Sadie\nseldom joined x in for the talk bored her. They all had one thought\nin their minds: they wantedto get married as soon as possible.\n\nKevin came back carrying two plates of fish and chips. He set\nthem down on the table. Sadie\nintroduced them him reluctanlty to the\ngirls who flashed bright smiles at him, but as soon as Sadieshesaid his name\nshe could see their thoughts ticking over. Kevin McCoy. A Catholic\nname, unmistakably Catholic. Sadie stared them hard in the eyes,\ndaring them to show anything they were thinking.\n\n\"Well, we'd better be getting along. See you in the morningthe morn, Sadie.\"\n\nThey took another look at Kevin before they went out. They would\nbe waiting for her in the cloakroom in the morning bursting with\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"875"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard031","Collections":"Chapter 4","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard031","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Hillside, Horror","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard031","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/Lingard031_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff29\n\nquestions that she would not answer. There was no one better than\nSadie Jackson at telling people to mind their own business.\n\nSadie laughed.\n\n\"What is it?\" asked Kevin.\n\n\"ThoseThem\" two. They've got something to talk about all the rest of the\nway home.\"\n\n\"People have little to talk about,\" he said with disgust, \"Come\non, eat your fish and chips before they get cold.\" xxxiXK5ixi*\u00b1\u00b1\niEaxKxjtaHxharaKxJtx\n\n^HHxdixttxkaxsxtaxHHxtxatxJJ\n\ntfixMaHifcxhaxaxfcaxdKxanyfekxsgxbHfcxixxHirtxisx#\n\nSadie discovered she was hungry after the fresh air up on the hill-\nside. They ate quickly and then relaxed to drink their coffee. She\nasked him about the others inrest of his family.\n\n\"How many brothers and sisters do you have now?\" she said. \"I\ndon't remember.\"\n\n\"There's eight of us altogether. One more than when I last saw\nyou. AdnAnd there'll be another next month.\"\n\n\"Nine!,\" she said in horror, \"What a life for your motheri\"\n\n\"She's happy enough,\" he said shortly.\n\n\"Oh Kevin, don't be daft, What woman wants to wear herself out\nbringing up a load of kids like tnat?\"\n\nHis face closed . He shrugged. He did not want to pupursue it\nfurther but she would not let it lie. She knew she was bad that way:\noften when it would be better to let something slide she went on\ndeterminedly.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"876"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard032","Collections":"Chapter 4","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard032","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Prods, Jackson","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard032","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/Lingard032_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff30\n\n\u201cHow can you ever expect to have a decent life if you go on having\nall those numbers of kids? I don't know why the pPope has to make\nyou do it.\"\n\n\"You're talking rot.\" He was angry now. \"The pPope doesn't make\nus. You Prods are all the same, you haven't the faintest idea what\nyou're attalking about.\"\n\nThey glared at one another across the table, then let their a eyes\nfall. They did not want to fight, as they once had. Sadie swallowed\nhard before she spoke. She always found it difficult to withdraw*\n\n\"I'm sorry,\" she said. \"I didn't really mean it like that.\"\n\n\"That's all right.\"\n\nIt was the first time they since their meeting that evening that\nthere was any unease between them. Kevin's brow was creased and\nhis eyes were dark. Sadie fiddled with the spoon in her saucer.\n\n\"I wouldn't have nine kids myself, mind you,\" he said.\n\n\"No?\"\n\n\"No. I couldn't feed them.\" He stood up. \"Come on, I'll leave\nyou home.\"\n\n\"You don't have to.\"\n\n\"I don't have to do anything. I never do anything I don't want to\ndo. You should know w that about me, Sadie Jackson.\"\n\nShe laughed and jumped up. \"I know that. But it might be asking\nfor trouble coming into my street.\"\n\n\"I'll leave you at the endheadof it, I won't come to your door. I\nwouldn't want to give your mMa heart attack.\"I nearly did once\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"877"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard033","Collections":"Chapter 4","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard033","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Friends, Trouble","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard033","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/Lingard033_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff31\n\nThey were friends again. They walked, hand in hand, through the\nstreets, skirting the areas that were strung with barbed-wire barricades\nor that they knew might be troublesome Once they had to take shelter\nin a doorway to get out of the waypath of two men. The men were\nrunning, feet clattering on the pavement, their breath gushing out\nin loud rasps. As they passed, Sadie and Kevin saw the look of the\nhunted in their faces. Seconds later four policemensoldiers thrundered by.\nWhen the noise of their feet had faded, Sadie and Kevin went on their\nway. They walked with a feeling of closeness for they knew that\nthey were inviting trouble in walking together at all.\n\nDo people deliberately avoid certain areas? YES\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"878"}}]}