A Preacher and His Wife
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And so the day before I was to leave for the new world I married Mr. Ryan's daughter Grace, even though I knew she did not much want to marry me.
A Frontier Tale.
A young Irish preacher, Callum Moore, is days away from departing for the new world to the west when he impulsively offers to marry Grace Ryan, a young woman he knows nothing about.
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