An Independent Woman: A Mail Order Bride Romance

By Doreen Milstead

An orphan, when she reaches adulthood, decides to become a mail order bride and sets out to meet her soon to be husband; a rancher in the west.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Dec 27, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329789944

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An Independent Woman: A Mail Order Bride Romance

An Independent Woman: A Mail Order Bride Romance

By

Doreen Milstead

Copyright 2015 Susan Hart

Synopsis:  An orphan, when she reaches adulthood, decides to become a mail order bride and  sets out to meet her soon to be husband; a rancher in the west.

Chastity Skylark Lancaster's perfectly round, feisty face was beautiful under her fiery red long ponytails as she stood in the center of the rounder’s pitch, her blue eyes ready to plug any runner if he tried to make his way around the base to home.

Behind the smudge marks and potato sack baggy pants and shirt she wore, a fine-looking young woman waited to be married to a hard-working farm man in Idaho.

Standing far off to the side of the Rounder's game, Miss Jutta Eberhart, a woman of fine upbringing herself, some said from the Hohenstaufen, noble German family, members of which were rulers of the Holy Roman Empire and kings of Germany and Sicily, watched Chastity playing with the Ohio Boys Orphanage home while all the timid girls from the Ohio Girls Orphanage home watched.

Chastity knew eventually she'd be transported by stage or train from the crowded east Ohio Girls Orphanage to somewhere out west. Eighteen-year-old Chastity looked forward to the adventure.

The teachers taught all they could; cooking--although Chastity never excelled in that; they taught her how to sew and modest success occurred on an occasion, especially if at making breeches for traveling or exploring the land, and they taught her about being a wife--even if much remained a mystery after the ladies completed their lesson as when they began.

Apparently the orphanage achieved greater progress teaching Chastity how to read and think critically, thereby forming in Chastity the intellect to listen to the wiles of public opinion in the newspapers and Penny Presses and make solid decisions.

They taught her about being careful in taking for granted the opportunities the good Lord laid before you; and reading the Bible every night so she didn't end up like Oliver Twist, running around with a gang of wicked boys and girls just trying to survive.

Chastity kept one phrase above all other phrases to her heart: 10:17-10:19 from the Fifth Book of Moses: Called Deuteronomy For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great: "God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Chastity considered herself that stranger and needed to know her God regardeth not persons known and establish, for as an orphan she held none of the accoutrements of success.

For her part, Miss Jutta Eberhart often tried to settle her