“I told your mother last week that it would be better to bury Iris and dig her up right before the wedding,” Papa had confided. It was their private joke in the kitchen that morning, far from the upstairs bedroom where Iris had insisted on tighter lacing, and Mama had insisted that if the laces were any tighter, Iris would faint in the Garden Room. “But I'm a little relieved to be turning her over to a husband.” “Because she'll get all small-eyed and jittery.” He had then looked around cautiously. Hadn't Papa joked that Nebuchadnezzar would be quite at home with that cake? “Don't tell Iris this,” he had whispered to her. She walked around the cake, decorated with enough flowers to satisfy a Babylonian. “I will be sore all night, Iris,” she said out loud as she admired her work.
Ulia Darling slid the last little rose onto her sister's wedding cake and then pressed her hand into the small of her back.
If you do not have it, how can you stand? Each will have to be guided by the light within himself. On the Upper Missouri: The Journal of Rudolphįort Buford: Sentinel at the Confluence he time will come when no man or woman will be able to endure on borrowed light. Here's to the Ladies: Stories of the Frontier Army To the memory of Doc and Ora Simons, Torrington, Wyoming,Īnd to my dear friends Kathryn and Neal Kelly, Torrington, Wyoming.
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