[The Mormon Prophet by Lily Dougall]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mormon Prophet CHAPTER I 6/12
Mr. Smith, he's always so kind, and he knew as that would be the thing as would give me the most help of anything." Emma subsided again into tears--tears that were the more touching to Susannah because Emma was not like most women; she seldom wept. "I don't mean to give way," Emma continued, "but if it was your husband as had gone, you'd know how it was, and it's the first time I've ever been separate from him so long." Susannah sat down with the child in her arms.
When the question was brought home to her she did not believe that temporary separation from Halsey would cause her tears. Emma began again with an effort at self-control.
"It's a long way to Jackson County, quite across Missouri.
It's all Elder Rigdon's doing, his going just now." Susannah found something that she could say here in agreement.
"It may be wrong, but I--I don't like Elder Rigdon." "Well, of course the way he believed, and all his congregation, when the word was first preached to them makes Joseph think that he must be full of grace.
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