the young man who would become her husband. Or she thought she met him at 15. It turned out that they’d met about 12 years earlier when Charlie’s family was traveling west and had stopped for the night to camp on the farm of Lettie’s parents. ...
who had a warm heart; but for me would have prevented those early lessons of fortitude, which her caprices taught me to practise. Had I prospered in life, what a proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been. Loving to shine, flattered and flattering, anxious, and wrappe...