{"id":253138,"date":"2026-07-13T02:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/a-most-unfortunate-happenstance-esther-hatch\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T02:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:36:15","slug":"a-most-unfortunate-happenstance-esther-hatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/a-most-unfortunate-happenstance-esther-hatch\/","title":{"rendered":"A Most Unfortunate Happenstance – Esther Hatch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was easier not to think of Papa in the same situations as well. Papa squeezed my shoulder and I started. \u201cHe stayed with that boy for twelve hours, Evelyn. After a day of fighting and hours of bringing in the wounded, he wouldn\u2019t leave his side.\u201d His voice quieted. \u201cI did everything but command him to go to bed and do you know what he said to me?\u201d Did I want to know? It was going to be something brave and kind, and it was easier to think of Captain Calder as a man here to woo Hattie while also at least half in love with another woman.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want him to be the best match for her. If he was, then I was meddling in a way that could hurt Hattie once again. \u201cWhat?\u201d Mama asked, her voice quavering. \u201cHe looked me in the eye and said, \u2018No one should ever be left alone.\u2019\u201d Papa cleared his throat, emotions catching in his voice at the memory. \u201c\u2018Especially not when hope is gone.\u2019\u201d I took in a long, slow breath, hoping to steady myself.<\/p>\n

Could I have mistaken Captain Calder\u2019s intentions with Hattie? The man Papa had just described\u2014the man Papa had always described\u2014 didn\u2019t seem to be the kind that would be in love with one woman while pursuing another. He\u2019d been delusional in that cottage, and while his anguish and longing had seemed genuine, what if everything had been a result of the fever? Maybe May wasn\u2019t real, or perhaps it hadn\u2019t been a person he\u2019d been calling out for.<\/p>\n

Perhaps he\u2019d wanted something and was starting a sentence he was never able to finish. All of my prejudices against Captain Calder came from one night when he\u2019d been in the throes of a fever. Judging him only on that seemed suddenly unjustifiable. And if I\u2019d been wrong about him, was my discomfort over the fact that he\u2019d kissed me when he was out of his mind enough to keep him from Hattie?<\/p>\n

I sighed heavily. Most likely not. I turned so I could face them. Mama had tears in her eyes.<\/p>\n

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No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. 1kitap1.com\/en For Vincent, who can certainly beat me in tennis, even if I won\u2019t let him prove it. So, actually, we will never really know. 1kitap1.com\/en For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.<\/p>\n

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Evelyn Blackwell Epilogue Book one of the 2026 Supposed Scandals Supposed Scandals Series Also by Esther Hatch Acknowledgments About the Author 1kitap1.com\/en 1 CAPTAIN JOHN CALDER Only a fool would travel through a storm on horseback. A fool or a man so bent on returning home after years of war he hadn\u2019t noticed the storm clouds gathering. I was at least one of those two, and I hoped it was only the latter. I leaned forward, placing Scout\u2019s thick warm neck between myself and the worst of the wind and torrents of water, then I loosened my hold on the reins.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t see more than a foot in front of us, and I trusted his senses better than my own. He\u2019d seen us through battles and storms before.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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