Love Finds You in Liberty, Indiana (Love Finds You™) by Dobson Melanie

Author:Dobson, Melanie [Dobson, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Love Finds You in Liberty, Indiana
ISBN: 9781934770740
Publisher: BookMasters
Published: 2011-04-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

It was only a brush of the fingers, the briefest of touches, but Daniel couldn’t stop thinking about the woman at Meeting. He didn’t know her name, but her gracious smile had carried him through his exhausting debate with Milton Kent. Today she hadn’t smiled at him. She had confused him.

When she saw him this morning, there was fear in her eyes, almost as if she were scared of him. Instead of even a simple nod of acknowledgment, she had turned and run away.

Not that he could blame her; many people ran when they saw him coming. He didn’t want to scare people, but he said exactly what he thought God intended him to say, no matter how unpleasant. It didn’t attract many people, men or women, to him, and he usually didn’t care. But if he had said or done something to offend this girl, he’d like to know why. Just so he could ask her forgiveness.

During the debate, it had seemed like she agreed with him. It was her smile and the encouragement in her eyes that helped him push through to the end. He may have had more than one supporter on that lawn, but the only one he had seen was this nameless girl who either didn’t remember him or had been upset by something he’d said.

“Such a morbid affair,” Esther ruminated to Joseph from the front seat of the buggy. “All dark and gloomy.”

Joseph slowed the pace of the horse so the carriage wouldn’t bounce his wife and unborn child over the ruts in the backwoods road. “That’s how all Quakers marry.”

“I know that.” She crossed her white-gloved hands across her chest. “But it’s more like a funeral than a wedding.”

Daniel couldn’t help but smile. There had been nothing plain or simple about Esther’s wedding. Even though Joseph had shown up at the ceremony, it was definitely Esther’s wedding. Joseph would have been satisfied with a clerk, a pen, and a marriage certificate, but he endured almost a year of selecting colors, silver, and flowers for their grand church extravaganza. In the end, the ceremony itself was as elegant as Queen Victoria’s wedding.

In spite of the prewedding stress, Joseph and Esther’s marriage had lasted for six years. With the birth of their child, they would finally become parents. He had never seen his sister happier. She had been a loving wife to Joseph, and he had no doubt that she would be a wonderful mother, as well.

At the time they were married, Daniel didn’t know if Joseph could endure the notions of his sister, especially since he was almost a decade older than her, but Joseph had treated her with the respect she deserved.

He and Joseph may not see eye-to-eye on the issue of slavery, but his brother-in-law was a moral and upright man, and he loved Esther. One day, Daniel prayed, his brother-in-law would befriend runaway slaves the same way he befriended the many patients he cared for across their county.

Daniel balled up his hand as the Quaker girl’s pretty face wandered through his mind again.

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