Over the Misty Mountains by Gilbert Morris

Author:Gilbert Morris [Gilbert Morris and Aaron McCarver]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781441262325
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group

Chapter Sixteen

Appalachian Destiny

May had turned to June, then June to the heat of July, and now August of 1770 made its appearance, and on the first day of that month, Elizabeth and Patrick awakened in their room in Boston as the bright sunshine shone through the windows. Patrick sat up and said, “Elizabeth!” She was already awake, he saw, and when she sat up and stared at him, he said, “Well, it’s time. We’ve had our last day in this house. You’ve spent all your life here, and now you’re leaving it. Are you a little sad?”

Elizabeth looked around the room and thought of the graciousness of the mansion, of the grounds, and of the years she had lived here. But she shook her head, her hair cascading down her back, and smiled. “I’ll always remember they’ve been good years. But the best of our life is before us. God has promised me that.” She reached over and pulled his head toward her, kissed him soundly, and said, “Now, get up and get dressed. I’ll bet the children have been awake since daybreak.”

They made their way downstairs and found William already moving around the room, dressed in a gray suit and wearing a fresh white shirt. He looked somewhat better, which was probably attributed to the fact that Will and Patrick had practically forced him to take a lengthy two-week sea voyage vacation. The time away from work and the rest had seemed to work wonders with him. He looked at them now and said quietly, “Well, I’m trying not to be sad, but it’s hard.”

Elizabeth went to him and put her arms around him. This man had guided her throughout childhood and her adult life with his strength and words of wisdom. Next to Patrick, he had been the most important man in her life. Tears came to her eyes, but she was determined not to let him see them. Blinking them away she said, “Well, have you seen the lovebirds this morning?”

A wry smile touched the lips of William Martin. “Oh yes! They’ve already been around. They can’t seem to take their eyes off of each other.”

Elizabeth said tentatively, “I’ve been worried about Mother. She wanted Will to marry somebody high on the social scale.”

“I think we’ve had enough of that sort of thing. Your mother has learned a hard lesson in that regard. Rebekah will make a good wife for him. Did I tell you we’ve decided to send her to school for a while? Maybe for even a year. Oh, not that she needs it, but she loves reading, and she told me that she’d feel better about meeting our friends and William’s if she had a little more grace and charm.”

“She doesn’t need any of that,” Patrick said. It had pleased him when Will had fallen in love with the young woman who had helped spare him from making a grave mistake. He had been afraid that Anne Martin would raise the roof with her son marrying a maid of her own house.

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