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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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com-paratively young woman and when Hya-cinthus was a boy. Then a maternaluncle had come and taken the boy awaywith him, to live nobody knew wherenor how, until his return a few monthssince. There was, of course, much curi-osity in Adams concerning him, and thecuriosity was not, generally speaking, ofa complimentary tendency. Some youngand marriageable girls esteemed him veryhandsome, but the majority of the peoplesaid that he was odd and stuck up, as hismother had been before him. He led aquiet life with his books, and he hada room on the ground-floor fitted up as astudio. In there he made things of clayand plaster, as the Adams people said,and curious-looking boxes were sent awayby express. It was rumored that a statueby him had been exhibited in New York,but that the Adams people doubted. Some faces show more plainly in themoonlight, or one imagines so. Hyacin-thus Wares showed as clearly as if carvedin marble. He in reality looked so like astatue that the girl standing in the en-
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Half-tone plate engraved by J. H. Grimley NOW SHE WAS IN THE MIDST OF THE LILIES 452 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. closure of box with the background ofhollyhocks had for a moment imaginedthat he might be one of his own statues.The eyes, either closed in sleep or ap-pearing to be, heightened the effect. But the girl was not now in a positionto do more than tremble at the plightinto which she had gotten herself. Itseemed to her that no girl, certainly nogirl in Adams, had ever done such atiling. Her freedom of mind now failedher. Another heredity asserted itself.She felt very much as her mother or hergreat-grandmother might have felt in asimilar predicament. It was as horribleas dreams she had sometimes had of walk-ing into church in her nightgear. Shewas sure that she must not move, andthe more so because at a very slight mo-tion of hers there had been a motion asif in response from the man on the porch.Then there was another drawback. Someroses grew behind the hollyhocks, andher skirt wa

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