A New Song by Jan Karon

Author:Jan Karon
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA), Inc.
Published: 2010-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

Edith Mallory, he thought, had the ominous persistence of leaking propane. Just when he thought she had vanished forever in Spain or Florida, she reappeared, and always with malice.

Surely there was some way she could come to terms with the town over this thing.

In the end, had she ever done anything for the benefit of Mitford? Never once, as far as he could remember. Her multimillion-dollar home sprawled along the ridge above the village, looking down on a community of souls who’d been through one tough scrape after another, yet she’d never been forthcoming, even to the library when it was struggling for its very existence.

And hadn’t he been sent knocking on her door when the town museum was trying to pull itself together, and hadn’t she made her usual seductive, albeit fruitless, overtures and sent him packing? The annual Bane and Blessing had long ago given up asking for contributions, not to mention the volunteer fire department.

Of course, she had given fifteen thousand to add beds to the Children’s Hospital, his favorite charity. He’d quickly learned, however, that it was all part of a plan to get him into a bed of her own.

His very skin crawled at the thought of how she’d trapped him in that blasted Lincoln, forcing him to leap from the thing while it was still moving.

He folded the Muse and threw it in the wastebasket. As far as he was concerned, the only good news was that J. C. Hogan had evidently installed software with a spell check. Too bad there was no software out there for grammar.

In truth, he was tired of knowing what was going on in Mitford. He didn’t want to hear another peep from that realm for a while.

He was going to do what Mona’s sign said, and bloom where he was planted.

Somehow, he’d managed to turn the ringer off and didn’t hear the phone while he was washing his cup at the sink down the hall.

“I don’t know why I keep missin’ you,” said Emma, when he punched the play button.

“I thought you’d want to know the scoop on Father Talbot, it’s what everybody’s talkin’ about. I didn’t lay eyes on him when he was here tryin’ out, but Esther Bolick says he’s good-lookin’ as anything, and tall. Very tall. Oh, and thin, she thinks he exercises, maybe with weights. Esther Cunningham said he walked up the street to her office when he was here, said he just wanted to meet the mayor of such a fine town, wanted to shake her hand, wadn’t that nice?

“He’s comin’ in November, is what they’re sayin’, has a wife that could be th’ twin of Meg Ryan, and two kids, both on th’ honor roll. Anyway, people are real excited about finally gettin’ somebody permanent down at Lord’s Chapel, and from a big church, too, I think it was Chicago. They say they saw him on a video and he preaches up a storm and is funny as heck, he had everybody rollin’ in th’ aisles.

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