Rose Galbraith by Grace Livingston Hill

Author:Grace Livingston Hill [GALBRAITH, ROSE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-63058-190-9
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

With tears of happiness on her face, Agnes took her letter to her boy’s father, and he, with his arms about her, read it and then kissed her tenderly.

“He couldn’t get a better girl,” he said fervently.

“Dear!” she said softly. And then added with a small pucker in her brow, “Only—I wish he had told us her name. I would like so much to know more about her.”

“You must be patient, little mother,” said Gordon’s father. “When your son gets ready to have a name for her he’ll tell you. If there’s anything to tell, and she’s not just an ideal who may vanish into somebody else, he’ll tell you when the time is ripe. You can’t hurry a bud in opening, you can’t force a love tale until it comes true. If you try, you may be sorry!”

Agnes McCarroll smiled understandingly, and later that evening she wrote to Gordon. “All right, dear son. And when you ever bring her here, I shall be ready to receive her with open arms.” That very night Gordon began to dream how it would be if he ever brought her. And just before he slept it seemed his lips were upon hers again, and her face close to his.

The next day he received, with great relief and joy, the letter from Edinburgh, together with the letter she had written from the ship. For the vision of her had begun to be so beautifully far away that he had feared it might vanish some day and turn out only a dream. Maybe there hadn’t been any girl at all who was different from other girls. Maybe it had all been fancy. Only, the touch of her lips still stayed upon his.

So he sat down at once with a great light of joy in his eyes and wrote her a letter.

Dear Rose:

I was so glad to get your ship letter today and to know that you are safely across and landed among relatives. I do not have to think of you as all alone on a ship full of strangers. Somehow I felt as if I ought to have done something about that for you before I left you. I hoped the flowers would tell you how I felt about it. So I am very glad you found a real friend in your Lady Campbell. I could not bear to have you lonely all the way across.

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