![]() His treatment by his family, Meg, and others who hurt him do not prevent him from doing what is right, what is honorable. As Meg spends her days with him and sees his goodness and strength, she cannot reconcile what she believes against what she is learning.Ĭlayton is truly a wonderful hero as he goes about his daily life in a town that is united in its hatred against him. ![]() ![]() There is not one bit of the coward in him. He is a man of quiet dignity, filled with honor and strength. ![]() She plans to watch him carve and sculpt day by day until he admits his cowardice and begs for her forgiveness.īut Clayton is not a coward – that much is obvious from the somewhat astonishing opening volleys in this story. She does so out of revenge – he had refused to fight in the war and has been branded a coward by his brother, his town, his South. Set in Texas after the Civil War, war widow Meg Warner commissions Clayton Holland to sculpt a war memorial. There are simply two wounded people brought together in sorrow, transformed by the healing power of love. There is no feisty heroine and no arrogant hero. ![]() The summary on the back cover of Always To Remember ends with the statement that “sometimes love – like courage – whispers instead of shouts.” That is how I will remember this book. ![]()
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