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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: various
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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elf-accusingcreature? Even Mrs. Darcy only set herlips straight ; it was like him to take thelast advantage of the offender to escapeconsequences! But Gertrude, laughingand crying, petted, comforted, encour-aged, as they undressed him like a childand put him to bed. Mrs. Darcy watched her with somethinglike artistic appreciation. Why haventyou children of your own ? she wondered,abruptly, and as suddenly added, remem-bering, Blessed thing you havent,though,—they couldnt be just yours. To the porch, as she left, Gertrudefollowed her. Im sure youre fairenough to realize that this will neveroccur again. Never ? Oh, probably not for a time,I admit. Hell stay close for a while.Hes all right when your hands on him,child; but youll always have to take carethat no one gets the best of you. Nowwhat value is there to anybody in thatkind of morality? It strikes me a manwho requires so much saving and cantdo any of it himself isnt worth it. What had that to do with it? Ger-trude turned indoors.
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HE ALWAYS LIKhD THAT HONEST WAY SHE HADVol. CIX-—No. 651—106 854 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. You go rest now yourself, Mrs.Darcy admonished. Ill send you oversome fried chicken and beaten biscuitfor dinner, and you take things easytill to-morrow. Darcy was already asleep. Gertrudestood looking down at him with a greatheartache for them both. How lonelyGod must feel, she thought, whimsically,with no one to look up to! And yet—what was she to ask the ideal? Therehad to be give and take in any relation-ship. If she hadnt perfection, she hada great deal more than nothing. Shehad taken the best life had offered her.Neither failure nor success, realizationnor disappointment, was ever absolute;there was always compensations, alwaysthings to make the best of. The phi-losophy of the common woe whichonly drives some temperaments to pessi-mism over the general lot gave Gertrudeoptimism over the personal. In the girls dream of love it was thePrince who played the leading part, theinstinct of

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