Hidden Seed, or A Year in a Girl's Life

"I AM fifteen to-day—fifteen," and the speaker rose from her seat near the table and walked to the window that opened upon a pleasant old-fashioned garden. "Mr. Rose said on Sunday that we ought early to form a plan for our life work, and I have formed mine—I mean to be a missionary to the heathen."

At this point she was interrupted by a knock at the door, and the next minute the housemaid appeared...