The Gown of Glory Author:Agnes Sligh Turnbull This is the story of a wonderful family, short on cash but rich in everything else. It is the story of a full and happy marriage, and of what happens when a very wealthy young man falls in love with the minister's daughter. — Twenty-five years before, David Lyall had brought Mary to the village of Ladykirk as his bride. Now there were Faith, ... more »the eldest daughter, who gave music lessons to continue her own studies; Jeremy, whose summers as a book salesman were putting him through college, and Lucy, the radiant eighteen-year-old whose education was being finished at home to save the tuition fee of the Academy. At the heart of the manse, the family, even the village itself, was Mary, whose years of joyful giving to husband, children and neighbors were returned to her in love.
But most of all this is David's story, that of a man whose gifts and quiet ambition made him long for larger opportunities; but who learned that size is not a matter of place but of the manner of living. « less