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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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e girl up; he had set his hearton her; he had gone without and spenthimself that she might be made the per-fect thing she was—and all to give herup now to another man. The perfectthing she was! It was not likely, then,that she would not choose as a perfectthing should. But what odds to him?He was going to lose her, just the same;and more—she would be wrapped up inthat husband of hers, and in all the newconcerns. That was the way of theworld. Tove went down; it did not runback. It was what other fathers had toput up with. Soft purples began to filter through thered of the sunset. He heard a whippoor-will call, far off over the cranberry-swamp;and then there was a silver din of whip-poorwills. He remembered the first timeTally ever heard one,—she held out bothher little hands to the evening star.The star is singing! she had cried.Ah, ah, what a lovely dear she wasthen!—what a lovely dear she was now!Like a great velvet rose. No wonder shehad a lover! Of course, of course—that,
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26 HAEPEES MONTHLY MAGAZINE. too, was the way of the world. Hewouldnt have liked it if she hadnt hadone, he supposed. All the same, it washard for him. It was hard for him thatshe didnt seem to care that it was hard.It was hard for him that he had to losethe daily sight and cheer of her. Thatit wasnt to him she would come in joyor in trouble. -That she put some oneelse before him. He knew how it was. His own wifelad left father and mother and cleavedonly to him, and never thought strangeof it. How had her father and motherfelt? He recollected that the mothercried when they left; and the fatherchoked up and turned away quickly.But they had let her go. They wantedher to be happy. They cared more forlier happiness than for their own. Theyknew the time would come when shew7ould not have them and would be aloneif she had no husband or child. Why,they loved her better than they lovedthemselves! They were glad in her hap-piness, even. And all at once, in hishigh-wrought mood, like a flash of

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