Love's Enduring Promise by Janette Oke

Author:Janette Oke [Oke, Janette]
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2010-07-10T16:00:00+00:00

The new teacher had heard so much back east about westerners not letting the easterner into the inner circle to become part of their frontier life. Yet here he was, out only a year and now serving on an important committee—a very important committee. After his contribution here, his place would be secure, he was sure.

He would go to his rooming house where he stayed at the Watleys, to his bedroom, close the door, and comb his memory for the best possible candidates he could recall. Scholars—he knew lots of scholars and some who would even be willing, just as he himself had been, to venture west to sample the excitement of opening a new frontier.

The West had its drawbacks, he was willing to admit, but there were compensations. One of them, in his case, being Miss Tessie LaHaye. Back east the young ladies had the less-than-cordial habit of turning away when they saw him approaching. Tessie entertained no such coyness. True, she was barely eighteen and he thirty-two, but in the West people seemed to quibble less over such social niceties. He was willing to accept her as a very pleasant young lady, and she seemed equally willing to accept him as an eligible man. In fact, he felt that she was rather impressed with his bowler hat and white spats. He planned to make a call on Miss Tessie—he hoped very soon, for he was anxious to discover just where he stood. And this meeting and his membership on the committee to find a preacher had given him the added confidence he needed. He no doubt would have to tread carefully, since Mrs. Watley clearly had her eye on him for her oldest daughter, but he surely would keep himself out of that quagmire, he assured himself as he sat down at his desk to begin his list.

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