Mail Order Bride Tess: A Sweet Western Historical Romance (Montana Mail Order Brides Series Book 2) by Rose Jenster

Author:Rose Jenster [Jenster, Rose]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-05-26T04:00:00+00:00

Dear Luke,

My parents were much impressed by your kind letter to them, and my mother at least has given me leave to write you. My hopes are serious and quite real. I appreciate that you do not sport with my feelings but say straight out what you intend. It made me smile to think of sweeping a floor, of brewing coffee in your kitchen. There is no way to say how much that idea charms me.

Now tell me of yourself, of those books you read by lamplight in the long winter evenings, of the friends you visit and the delightful nephews. I have one nephew of my own, but I have only seen him twice. My sister Carol and her husband live in West Virginia so we do not see them often. Little Matthias is, I believe, three years of age now. My sister writes of his antics and what a clever little chap he is, though I am sure each child seems so to its own mother. I minded my friend Jane’s little boy Walter a few weeks ago. He is a round and noisy little one who loves to chew his rag ball that I made him with scraps from the shop. Jane laughs and says that he is part hound dog, but I think he is getting more teeth soon.

The cowboy book ended happily, but it was a near thing—our hero was winged by a bullet and had to complete the gunfight with his off-hand. Miraculously, he managed to vanquish the villain left-handed and all was set to rights. Now I am reading another borrowed dime novel, this one about a highwayman who steals only from the rich. He has long flowing Byronic hair and I expect him to die tragically, perhaps saving a baby from a runaway carriage or puppies from a burning building. He is both too noble and too criminal to survive the tale…one could never tolerate seeing him placed in a prison where he rightfully ought to be sent.

I am reading a bit of Dickens to balance my tawdry novel habit. I find the Two Cities to be bracingly grim in contrast to all that flamboyant sentiment. I’ve not much news. I suppose there’s the fact we’ve received a new shipment of notions at the shop and I’m instructed to press all customers to embellish their gowns and jackets with buttons, braid, and anything else I might conceivably stitch to a garment to increase its price. This is neither the most elegant, nor most friendly tactic, I believe.

I hope fondly that I may not be subject to such directives this time a year hence. I hope with equal fondness that my letter finds you well and perhaps pleased to receive such a missive.

Sincerely,

Tess

Soon, letters lay thick in the ribbon-tied packet she kept in her drawer. It seemed that Luke had taken to writing weekly as well, not waiting for a reply but keeping a conversation in its own way. One letter might discuss

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