Lonely Dove
She knew Mosby was a drunkard
from the first, but he told her he was a Southern gentleman and he had an expensive buggy and a fine pair of horses, so
she believed him.
Mosby claimed that he wanted to marry her, and Lorena believed that too, and let him drag her off to a big old drafty
house near a place called Gladewater. The house was huge, but it didn’t even have glass in the windows or rugs or
anything; they had to set smoke pots in the rooms to keep the mosquitoes from eating them alive, which the mosquitoes
did anyway. Mosby had a mother and two mean sisters and no money, and no intention of marrying Lorena anyway,