The Historian by Kathryn Judson

Author:Kathryn Judson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: marriage, faith, racism, freedom, nonviolence, freedom in christ, faith based fiction, nonresistance, freedom from tyranny
Publisher: Kathryn Judson

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A second house, smaller than the one Rick and Tanya and their children were in, was cleaned up and put in order. As soon as it was ready, Walker married Natalya.

The wedding was a quiet affair with a great deal too much Bible reading and prayer time to suit Tomas – although, of course, if you had to put up with Bible reading and incantations to get married, he'd swallow his objections and do it, if only he could get properly lined up with a woman who would be allowed to marry him.

Since he was trying triply hard now to blend in, Tomas added his hearty congratulations to the couple along with the others, as the little community escorted the deliriously-happy but possessed-of-a-new-dignity pair from the special meal at the sunken mess hall, down the path to their newly spiffed up cottage.

Then, since it was raining, and cold, everyone except the newlyweds retired to the main bunkhouse, for hot drinks and pleasant chats. They'd already had wine, at the special feast, but care had been taken that no one overindulged. Tomas, who had learned to like to drink enough wine to feel intoxicating effects, had felt like mutinying, but had resolutely stuck to his best behavior, in hopes of speeding up the wife search. They did seem to value good behavior, after all, especially in a prospective husband. They not only said they did, but in practice they did seem to value good behavior. And if that's what they wanted, that would be what they would get; as far as he could manage it, at least.

The women, all of them, had cried at the wedding ceremony. Worse yet, they all seemed inclined to cry again, at the least provocation, or even a stray thought. Why Science had made the female sex so volatile, he wished he knew. There didn't seem to be much upside to it, other than it could make a man feel he ought to do something for them. Perhaps that had been the reason? If so, Science bloody well should have arranged for men to generally know what to do for them, because, all too often, like now, there wasn't anything obvious.

Speaking of Science, though, over the course of time he'd found that these exiles had a rather low view of Science, at least as a force for improving life and Society, and he was beginning to wonder if they had a point.

Cordelia seemed a bit sad, and Hamlet seemed more inclined than usual to attend to her.

"Are you all right?" Veneece asked Cordelia.

"Yes, darling. I'm just a bit wistful. I get that way at weddings, at least when I let my mind go forward to thinking about the babies that might come along. Mind you, I'm not jealous. I know we're not allowed to covet what our neighbors have, and with God's help I don't, but it can still be hard that Hamlet and I were born Topside, in a breeding program designed to turn out

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