Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . her, that it did not seemfair,—so I came back to take a farewelllook, Willy, when you found me with—Misery. Now I am wondering if I amto go—or to ask for what I want— I—I did not know you had comeback. Miss Lehews color paled, andher voice was not steadv. I could not help it; but I could notstay away, and yet—and yet I felt it wascowardly of me to—interfere. Tell me,he broke off, with a sudden note of fierce-ness, where have you been all this end-less day? Likewise with misery, she said, andlaughed, but her eyes were misty. T
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . her, that it did not seemfair,—so I came back to take a farewelllook, Willy, when you found me with—Misery. Now I am wondering if I amto go—or to ask for what I want— I—I did not know you had comeback. Miss Lehews color paled, andher voice was not steadv. I could not help it; but I could notstay away, and yet—and yet I felt it wascowardly of me to—interfere. Tell me,he broke off, with a sudden note of fierce-ness, where have you been all this end-less day? Likewise with misery, she said, andlaughed, but her eyes were misty. Theirlooks clung, and she added, bravely, Ineed not have been, had you asked forwhat you wanted! Behind Willys backhis hand found hers, and for an instanthis lips rested upon it. Miserys a finedog, remarked Willy, with happy un-consciousness in the silence. You saidso! Without exception the finest onearth! said the man behind Willy,triumphantly. Lovely! murmuredMiss Lehew, tremulously. And Misery dropped one ear andwhimpered with consistent Miserys a fine Dog. remarked Willy Strong Points of Infancy BY EDWARD S. MARTIN THE distinction of the human in-fant lies in his incapacity. So sayour brethren learned in science, as-suring us that mans strongest pointsare his excessive helplessness when he isa new baby, and the preposterous lengthof time it takes him to grow up. F. Chamberlain, who has written abook about The Child, gives a crowdof authorities for these assertions, andmakes the reasons of them so plain thatany of us can see for himself that theymay be true. We know that man be-gins life at the very bottom of the ladder,and crawls to maturity at a slower paceby far than any of the animal of being like a colt, grown upat four and used up at twenty, he isbarely grown up at twenty, but is goodthen for forty or fifty years of was John Fiske who pointed out thatthe protracted helplessness of childrenkept parents together f
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