1917-08—Improvement Era—The Little Gray Wren

TThe Little Gray Wren

Improvement Era, August 1917, p. 861

The Little Gray Wren

Betty sank gratefully into the shadow of the huge fern which half filled the recess of the large window. She was hot and flushed and embarrassed. She was quite sure she had never felt so uncomfortably and out-of -place in her life before. Why had they insisted upon her coining? Why hadn't Grace told her how it would be? Yet she could not feel resentful toward her cousins. They were doing everything to make her brief visit pleasant.

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After her mother's recovery they began to talk of her music again. Then had come the letter from the Church offices, asking her to go on a mission. With the same cheerfulness with which she had sacrificed her personal ambitions for her family, she now responded to her Church.

She had been assigned to the Eastern States Mission and was on her way to her field of labor now. Her route had brought her through her cousin's city and she had arranged to stop off for a short visit with Richard and Grace.

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