The Sea House: a Novel
“The MacKays and the MacDonalds were already seated in the pews. Most of the local people had turned out, the women wearing those black straw hats that they seemed to keep specifically for church each Sunday. Two men in dark suits sat near the front – policemen from Tarbert. Shortly after the service had begun, the door creaked open again. Lachlan slipped in and sat down at the back.
The congregation sang Gaelic psalms, a kind of wailing that makes your hair stand on end. In the pauses you could... hear the competing, tuneless sound of a corncrake outside, rasping its one-idea song.
We filed out of the church in silence and followed the small box down to the graveyard turf. All around, the island was shimmering, blue sea and green machair, the corncrake creaking away from somewhere in the silverweed. Two men slowly lowered the tiny box into a hole at the end of the row of headstones. Dougal read prayers, a couple of skylarks winding higher and higher over the sea pastures, a warm wind lifting my hair.MoreLess
The congregation sang Gaelic psalms, a kind of wailing that makes your hair stand on end. In the pauses you could... hear the competing, tuneless sound of a corncrake outside, rasping its one-idea song.
We filed out of the church in silence and followed the small box down to the graveyard turf. All around, the island was shimmering, blue sea and green machair, the corncrake creaking away from somewhere in the silverweed. Two men slowly lowered the tiny box into a hole at the end of the row of headstones. Dougal read prayers, a couple of skylarks winding higher and higher over the sea pastures, a warm wind lifting my hair.MoreLess
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