When he met Theodosia he looked at her with a curious twinkle in his keen old eyes . `` Looks as if a man could bend her any way he 'd a mind to , does n't she ? '' he said . `` Looks is deceiving . It 'll come out in her face by and by -- she 's too young yet , but it 's there . It does seem unnatteral to see a woman so stubborn -- you 'd kinder look for it more in a man . '' Wesley wrote a brief letter to Theodosia when he reached his destination . He said he was well and was looking about for the best place to settle . He liked the country fine . He was at a place called Red Butte and guessed he 'd locate there . Two weeks later he wrote again . He had taken up a claim of three hundred acres . Greene and Cary had done the same . They were his nearest neighbours and were three miles away . He had knocked up a little shack , was learning to cook his own meals , and was very busy . He thought the country was a grand one and the prospects good . Theodosia answered his letter and told him all the Heatherton news . She signed herself `` Theodosia Brooke , '' but otherwise there was nothing in the letter to indicate that it was written by a wife to her husband . At the end of a year Wesley wrote and once more asked her to go out to him . He was getting on well , and was sure she would like the place .
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