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\"Honor<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m pleased to share Honor<\/em>, Book One of my new “Quaker Brides” series. Here is Scene One. Remember to leave a comment. I’m giving away 2 copies this week!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter One, Scene One
\nHigh Oaks Plantation
\nTidewater Maryland
\nAugust 1819<\/p>\n

Each time her grandfather struggled for another breath, Honor Penworthy\u2019s own lungs constricted. She stood beside the second story window, trying to breathe normally, trying catch a breeze in the heat. Behind her, the gaunt man lay on his canopied bed, his heart failing him. How long must he suffer before God would let him go on?
\nOutside the window stretched their acres, and the tobacco fields where dark heads covered with kerchiefs or straw hats bent harvesting the green-speared leaves. High Oaks–to her the most beautiful plantation in Maryland. She felt a twinge of pain, of impending loss.
\n\u201cThe edict was impractical. And your…father was a dreamer. But at least, he had the sense to realize his irrational decision must be kept secret. Doesn\u2019t that tell you not to carry it out?\u201d Each word in this last phrase slapped her and each cost him.
\nUnable to ignore this challenge, she turned. In her grandfather\u2019s youth, the Society of Friends had dicatated that all Friends should free their slaves. \u201cMy father remained Quaker,\u201d she said the bare words in a neutral voice, trying not to stir the still smoldering coals.
\n\u201cI remained a Christian,\u201d he fired back. \u201cMy forebears chose the leave the Anglican church to become Quaker. I chose to change back.\u201d
\nHe’d made that choice because the Episcopal church didn\u2019t press its members to emancipate their slaves. All of the other Quakers in their county had left except for a few older infirm widows, women who\u2019d had the control of their land left to sons. As a single woman, however, Honor could inherit and dispose of property legally.
\nHonor returned to his bedside. At the sight of her grandfather\u2019s ravaged face, her pity and love surged.
\nAt her approach, her grandfather\u2019s mouth pulled down and his nose wrinkled up–as if he were tasting bitter fruit.
\nTorn between her love for her father and her grandfather, she didn\u2019t want to fight with him, not now. \u201cMy father loved thee,\u201d she said to placate him.
\n\u201cThat is beside the…point. He should never has asked that promise of you. It was cowardly.\u201d He panted from the exertion.
\nShe gazed at him levelly. The memory of her father\u2019s untimely death still had the power to sweep away her calm but one couldn\u2019t change history. Her grandfather\u2019s comment could lead them into harsh recriminations. And proved that he knew he\u2019d done wrong and he\u2019d chosen the wide way, not the narrow gate. She chose her words deftly. \u201cI believe that my father was right.\u201d
\nHer grandfather\u2019s mouth tightened, twisted not only because of her recalcitrance but also from a sudden pain. He gasped wildly for breath.
\nIf only it weren\u2019t so hot. She slipped another white-cased down pillow under his chest and head, trying to ease his breathing. She blinked away tears, a woman\u2019s weapon she disdained. \u201cHow will you…work the land without…our people?\u201d he demanded in between gasps.
\n\u201cThee knows I cannot. And that once they are gone, there will be no way I can hold the land.\u201d She said the words calmly but inside fear frothed up. Freeing their slaves would irrevocably alter her life.
\nHe slapped the coverlet with his gnarled fist. \u201cThis land has been Penworthy land for four generations. Will you toss aside the land your great-great grandfather cleared by hand and fought the Cherokee for?\u201d
\nShe felt the pull of her heritage, a cinching around her heart. \u201cI know. It weighs on me,\u201d she admitted.
\n\u201cThen why do it?\u201d
\nHe forced her to repeat her reasons. \u201cI gave my father my promise and I agree with him.\u201d
\nHer grandfather made a sound of disgust, a grating of rusted hinges. Then he glared up at her from under bushy, willful brows. \u201cThings have changed since your father left us. Did you even notice that our bank failed this year?\u201d
\nThe lump over Honor\u2019s heart increased in weight, making it hard to breathe around it. \u201cI am neither blind nor deaf. I am aware of the nationwide bank panic.\u201d
\n\u201cAre you aware that we\u2019ve lost our cash assets? We only have the land and the people to work the land. And debts.\u201d
\n\u201cDebts?\u201d That she hadn\u2019t known.
\n\u201cYes, debt is a part of owning a plantation. And I\u2019m afraid last year\u2019s poor crop put us in a bad situation even before the bank panic.\u201d
\nHonor looked into her grandfather\u2019s cloudy, almost blind eyes. \u201cHow bad?\u201d
\n\u201cIf you free our people and sell the land, you will have nothing worthwhile left.\u201d
\nA blow. She bent her head against one of the posts of the canopied bed. The lump in her chest grew heavier. \u201cI didn\u2019t think emancipation would come without cost.\u201d
\n\u201cI don\u2019t think you have any idea of how much it will cost you.\u201d Disdain vibrated in each word. \u201cIf you free our people and sell the plantation, who will you be if you aren\u2019t the lady of High Oaks?\u201d
\nShe looked up at the gauzy canopy. \u201cI\u2019ll be Honor Penworthy, child of God.\u201d
\n\u201cYou will be landless, husbandless and alone,\u201d he railed. A pause while he gathered strength,\u00a0 wheezing and coughing.
\nHonor helped him sip honey water.
\n\u201cI don\u2019t want you in that vulnerable position,\u201d he said in a much gentler tone, his love for her coming through. \u201cI won\u2019t be there to protect you. You think that Martin boy will marry you, but he won\u2019t. Not if you give up High Oaks.\u201d
\nAlec Martin had courted her but no, she no longer thought they would marry. A sliver of different pain pierced her.
\nThe floor outside the door creaked, distracting them. Honor turned to hear footsteps she recognized. \u201cDarah?\u201d she called.
\n\u201cI want to see her,\u201d Grandfather said, looking away.
\nHonor moved quickly and opened the door.
\nDarah paused at the head of the stairs. She was almost six years younger than Honor\u2019s twenty-four years, very slight, pretty with soft brown hair and soft brown eyes.
\n\u201cCousin, come here. Our grandfather wishes thee.\u201d
\nDarah reluctantly glanced into Honor\u2019s eyes–at first like a frightened doe and then with something else Honor had never seen in her cousin before. Defiance?
\nDarah walked back and slipped past her into the room. \u201cGrandfather?\u201d
\nHe studied his hands, now clutching the light blanket. \u201cHonor, leave us. I wish to speak to Darah alone.\u201d
\nWhy? Worry stirred. She ignored it. \u201cAnd I must see to a few of our people who are ailing.\u201d Honor bowed her head and stepped outside, shutting the door. She went down the stairs to gather her medicine chest and later she must meet with the overseer. The plantation work could not be put aside because her grandfather\u2019s heart was failing. She tried to take a deep breath but the weight over her heart would not budge.
\nShe hated to see her grandfather suffer and she hated to disappoint him. But her course had been set since she was a child. She shuttered her mind against the opposition she would stir up.<\/p>\n

********<\/p>\n

QUESTION: So did Honor’s situation catch your interest? Have you ever had to disappoint someone you loved?–Lyn<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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