Hazel's Tribulations by Lisa Prysock

Author:Lisa Prysock [Prysock, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian romance, Wyoming, Christian short read romance, western, The Belles of Wyoming, Christian Historical Fiction, historical American frontier romance, American Classic, Western Romance, sweet and clean romance, inspirational, inspirational short reads, western & frontier Christian romance, clean and wholesome romance, inspirational romance, Christian historical romance, novella, Sweet Romance, inspirational and religious romance, Historical romance, historical romance novella, novella romance
Publisher: Lisa Prysock
Published: 2020-03-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23

Lady Hazel felt herself growing to intensely dislike Mr. Wade Jefferson, the ranch hand who seemed to look right through her as if he was reading the intents of her heart. He was always around at the most inopportune moments, and the next incident was the worst of them all in her mind.

She could tell he thought she was a useless individual, and no matter what she did, he always seemed to be on hand to witness her shortcomings and failures. The next day, she received a letter from her dearest friend in all of England, Lady Mary Prater.

It was delivered by Joshua who’d gone to town to check for mail and pick up a list of supplies. He’d returned with letters, coffee, tea, sugar, flour, cornmeal, a barrel of salt pork, and the like. The wranglers emptied the wagon and brought the supplies into the kitchen.

Everyone gathered around to see if a letter had arrived for any among them. Joshua passed out the mail, and each looked happy to have some correspondence. When he handed Hazel a letter last, he added, “You’ll have to join us at church this Sunday so you can have a better look at Belle without blizzard conditions.”

“Yes, thank you, Joshua,” she replied, nodding, surprised he’d handed her a letter. Was that his way of commanding her to not find another excuse to miss the worship service? She observed him as he settled into reading a copy of the Friday edition of the Belle Gazette at the dining room table with a cup of strong black coffee.

Cousin Mia squeezed her hand warmly. “I’m so glad you’ve a letter, Hazel. We can spend the afternoon writing our replies to our hearts’ content.”

Hazel nodded, still surprised to be holding an envelope in her hands. Her cousin, Viscount Alfred Morley, had a letter from Lady Alice, his intended. Her uncle, Lord Charles Morley, settled into a seat to Joshua’s right, with Henry on his other side, to read a letter from a family friend back in England and another from his business manager, the man handling his affairs while he was out of the country.

Henry and Fern had no mail, but Henry enjoyed reading the newspaper pages as Joshua passed each page along. Uncle Charles would courteously pause from reading his letters and pass the newspaper pages on to Henry without any words. Miss Flora even had a letter from her family back in England.

Cousin Mia held in her hands a letter from a friend in England as well, detailing the account of her friend’s Christmas, and a letter from Mrs. Ada Smith in Virginia. She took the seat to her husband’s left to read her letters.

Patrick had a letter from a friend in Kentucky, and Edward, a letter from relations in Minnesota. Miss Ambrosia took a turn about the dining room as she read a letter from her aunt in Virginia, someone named Prudence, or Aunt Prudy.

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