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Plantation Morning Glory 

Chapter One 
 

 Along side the Mississippi river in March of 1861 on a Plantation called Morning Glory, Jennifer Spring and her mother were in a full fledged argument.
     "No, I won't!" Jennifer defied her mother, blue eyes flashing.
      Lucille looked at her daughter in exasperation.  "It is the way of our society,
 Jennifer.  You must marry before Caroline, and that is that."  Lucille placed 
the book she had in her hand back on the vast bookshelf where it belonged.  Then turned back to her stubborn daughter.  "Your sister will not be married until you are and that is my final word."
      "But, mother.  We don't have the finances for a dowry for two of us.   And, if you think I have a better chance of marrying into money than Caroline does, I truly think you should take a second look.   She is prettier than me by far.  And, further more, Mother, she has all the proper graces along with her sweet disposition to catch any man she sets her cap on."  Jennifer flicked lint off  her aging frock, then looked at her mother, "Besides, that is old fashioned thinking.  More and more younger daughters are being wed first nowadays." 

     "Young lady,  that well may be, but not in this family.  You have your own looks and  you have plenty of  character and I am not going to leave you on the shelf without a husband."  Lucille tugged at her own blond, just barely turning gray hair, while her face clouded with indiscernible emotions.   She wasn't really angry at her daughter, and she knew Jennifer had a point. 
     Jennifer took after her late husband's family, while Caroline took after her own. She scrutinized her daughter. She was  too tall for what was acceptable. Her hair was a golden brown and not in the current demand that her younger daughter's curly blond hair was.  Yes, as she looked her oldest daughter over she knew that it would be better to pay for the coming out ball for her younger daughter, but she was not going to have her oldest daughter shamed. 
      Lucille had been born and raised in England a daughter of the Duke of Winchester.  From a wee tot she had been taught protocol and etiquette, and she knew what was acceptable and what was not acceptable to be accepted in the current society,  yet, much of the old ways had clung to her like chewed gum stuck in hair. 
     "Don't you worry, honey, when you marry a man with money, your sister can have a ball.  The only other hope I will have is if your grandfather would let loose of his purse for us." She sighed and pointed  to the calendar.  It was Tuesday, near the end of March 1861.  "In two and a half  months, Jennifer," Lucille said, " our mortgage will be due in full.  We are almost a year behind in payments, and I have talked the banker into allowing for the cotton crops to sell" Her mother's brow furled with worry.
 

Warning this book has some R rated content.
 

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Teresa King is the mother of 3 sons, and a writer in Washington State. The characters in this book are purely fictional. The Historical Characters used in Havenwood are referred to  keep the books and the character of the times. Not, fact. 

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