A Passion Most Pure (The Daughters of Boston Book #1): A Novel by Lessman Julie

Author:Lessman, Julie [Lessman, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: FIC042030, FIC042000, FIC026000
ISBN: 9781441200945
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2007-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

15

For Marcy and everyone in the O’Connor household, June 15 was a day of mourning. Collin McGuire was shipping out, and with him went the hopes and prayers of the family who claimed him as their own. The last month had been difficult for everyone concerned. Like clockwork, Charity would lunge into a crying jag following each of Collin’s visits while Marcy tried to comfort her until it passed. Faith, although not as depressed as prior to her talk with Collin, wandered about in a mild malaise, which wasn’t suspect at all as it merely matched the mood of the rest of the family.

Marcy knew Patrick felt as if he were sending a son off to war. And, indeed, the fear remained that soon they might be doing that as well. Just twenty-four hours prior, President Wilson had declared in his Flag Day Address that the initial American Expeditionary Force, of which Collin was a part, would soon be followed by more soldiers as quickly as possible. Marcy was sick with worry about Collin and fraught with dread for her own son. Her only consolation at this difficult time was that at least her husband would be spared from the greedy arm of the Selective Service. Never had she appreciated Patrick passing the draft age of thirty more than she did now. An appreciation that, she soon discovered, was destined to be short-lived despite her prayers. Shortly after the first troops arrived in France on June 26, General Pershing called for a U.S. army of three million men. Marcy could see in her husband’s face what he refused to mention. The night he finally uttered it followed on the heels of the worst day of her life.

Her grandmother was dying and Sean had been drafted. Marcy had never known such fear and pain. Although she had never been a woman who stormed and raged, that seemed to be changing as she progressed in years. Suddenly she felt no compunction whatsoever at giving full vent to her anger. She lay on their bed, indifferent to the shards of broken glass strewn across her bedroom floor from the hand mirror she hurled at the wall. Her mother’s letter was soggy and smeared from Marcy’s hours of weeping. Mima’s heart had weakened, Bridget had written, after becoming severely taxed by a serious bout with the flu. The doctor suggested that funeral arrangements be made as quickly as possible. As if that dagger had not been enough to gouge a gaping wound, a draft notice for Sean had arrived the very same day, inflicting the final death blow to Marcy’s sanity and peace. She shivered uncontrollably despite the summer day, her pillow cold and sodden with tears as she awaited the sound of her husband’s footfall.

Sean had met him at the door, and without a word handed him the notice he received in the mail. It was the ashen look on his son’s face and not the notice itself that alerted Patrick that their worst fears had come true.

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