The Heart that Truly Loves by Susan Evans McCloud

Author:Susan Evans McCloud
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Deseret Book Company
Published: 2019-05-21T23:56:02+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

In midsummer the earth slows to the pace of honey-replete bees and sluggish brooks; of boughs laden with berries, still and ripe and unpicked; of shady coves brimming with fish, sleek and silver and uninvaded. In midsummer the earth holds her breath and savors the wide array of her glorious wealth before the frenzy of autumn and harvest and the inevitable regression toward winter’s denuding and decay.

Millie gave way to the sweet lethargy. She thought of nothing, questioned nothing, desired nothing. Then Verity’s letter came.

It was dated July 7, 1839, Quincy, Illinois. Millie could feel the beat of her heart quicken in her breast. She sought her mother’s rocker and sat down with deliberate care.

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