Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . 142 TTAKPEirS MONTHLY I WOULD DO THE BEST I KNEW HOW FOR YOU, MELISSA stones, numberless oaks and chestnutstasselling above and around them infringes of pale yellow or reddish goldmoving lightly in the soft air. For days,with the awakening life of the world,something had been stirring in Timothyto press boldly forward and secure a def-inite claim to what he had always in-tended should be his. As they sat there in the afternoonstillness, theheightened col-or in Melis-sas face, thetendrils of darkhair curlingw i t h damp
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . 142 TTAKPEirS MONTHLY I WOULD DO THE BEST I KNEW HOW FOR YOU, MELISSA stones, numberless oaks and chestnutstasselling above and around them infringes of pale yellow or reddish goldmoving lightly in the soft air. For days,with the awakening life of the world,something had been stirring in Timothyto press boldly forward and secure a def-inite claim to what he had always in-tended should be his. As they sat there in the afternoonstillness, theheightened col-or in Melis-sas face, thetendrils of darkhair curlingw i t h dampnessaround the fore-head he had al-ways thought sobeautiful, theoft-loved lightin her hazeleyes, had pre-cipitated desireinto speech; buther answer hadnot been what hehad hoped for. Theres notanybody else— No, oh no,Timothy; youknow that. In truth, withlittle to retardand enrich ma-turity, most ofthe young peopleof her acquaint-ance had alreadymated; somewho were at-tracted by herlooks and by acertain tang inh e r character,had touched,when they camenearer, the inde-finable barrierwhich eve
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