And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
He said a bit more gently, “Your father was often in this room. It seems right having you here.” “Bella will wonder if I tarry.” “Let her wonder, Roxie. Let them all wonder.” His tone was so mellow, so inviting, she felt her dilemma play plainly across her face. “I won’t offer you a drink, if that’s what you’re worried about.
That man is in love with you, Roxanna Rowan. Why don’t you see it?
War had stolen much, including an appreciation of the seasons.
I’m no longer your concern.” “You’ve been my concern ever since you were six years old, come to fort up with me. You’re in my blood, Lael – a forever and endurin’ part of me!
I made a terrible mistake marryin’ Piper. It was you I said my vows to on my weddin’ day – your face was in my mind. And that night ’twas you I – ” “Nay!” She covered his mouth with her hand, unable to hear it, but he only held her tighter. She cried until the front of his linen shirt was damp with her tears, and when she pushed away from him he would not let her go. “There’s never been another like you,” he whispered. “And never will there be.
You reckon Russell would miss me?” The hope in her words twisted Tempe’s heart. “Oh, he would, but he’d never likely say. Russell holds tight to what hurts.
No matter her heartache, she’d begun to embrace whatever was handed to her, shrugging with a broody spirit to enter fully within.
Sometimes I – I feel caught between the present and the past. Waiting. Hoping.
A great many belles at the ball will be smiling even if you are not. I simply wish that he did not look so much like a scoundrel.” “Scoundrel?” Elisabeth peered at her maid through the darkness. “That is not how I would describe him.” “No?” Isabeau’s voice pitched. She was all but wringing her hands. “He is – how do you say it? A rascal? A rogue? Swarthy as a buccaneer with his dark looks. Some say he has more gypsy blood than Welsh.
What cannot be cured must be endured.
If this be a fallen, half-forsaken world, what wonders lay in the next? She had a large hope for what waited on the other side of death.
Distance lends enchantment to the view. English proverb.
He longed to put names to nameless things.
Law, but ain’t the colonel full of surprises? When he told me to fetch yo’ things cuz he wanted you up here tonight, I was almost as surprised as when he hightailed it out o’ here to carry you back from Smitty’s Fort. I figure he’ll be askin’ to marry you next.
To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty. PROVERB.
You’re much too lovely – and well dressed – to be sitting alone by the fire, Miss Rowan.
How many days was it? Two? I could’ve told you that you don’t belong in any schoolroom.” Stung, she stammered, “Wh-where do I belong?” He removed his hat and placed it over his heart, though his eyes remained faintly mocking. “Up on my four hundred, Lael Click. Where else?
I suppose now is a terrible time to propose,” he told her, suddenly rueful. She looked at him in wonder. Truly, he had no shame, wooing her as he did when he could see she was in a dither. It took all her nerve to return his flirtatious banter and say, “Your timin’ needs work, Simon. But elopin’ might sit better than my quittin’. ” He grimaced. “I doubt it. I’d hate to stare down your pa’s gun barrel once we jumped the broom. Besides, I can’t marry someone I ain’t never courted or even kissed.
Of all emotions, jealousy was hardest to stomach.