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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: various
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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nt, the refined andsensitive mouth—no single feature waswanting; and I found myself wonderingif, after all, that young motherhood wasyet to project itself, in some longer spanof life than had been vouchsafed to it, inrich and gracious unfolding in her boy. The question starts us, not unnatural-ly, upon another. The average reader,whether he be especially curious in suchmatters or no, must be aware how muchwas made, a little while ago, under thelead of Galton and his disciples, of hered-ity; and how distinctly those earlier tra-ditions have been traversed by a greatGerman authority, who would persuadeus, if I have understood him aright, thatwe have all been making too much of thelaw of heredity. Perhaps we have; but,all the same, there are certain obviousfacts which, like the face of my littleschool-boy friend in the picture, we can-not quite ignore. Not long ago I was theguest of a friend in whose house was acharming lad of (what, alas! is not socommon now as it used to be) the most
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Half-tone plate engraved by P, A. Pettit A CHILDS LIFE BOUND UP IN HIS MOTHERS MOTHER AND CHILD. 103 charming manners. He entered the roomsoon after my arrival, and at once, with-out any suggestion from his elders, ad-vanced, with outstretched hand, to greetme. The grace and charm of his saluta-tion were altogether exceptional—and tome, as it happened, much more; for theywere the most perfect, and at the sametime most perfectly unconscious, repro-duction of the manner, with its rarecharm, of his mother. So marked was itthat when, a little later, both the lad andhis mother had withdrawn, I could notbut speak of it. Said I to my host, Yourwife couldnt have taught that boy toenter a room or to shake hands; and yetwas there ever a more felicitous reproduc-tion of her most distinct and individualmanner ? Was there ? he replied, withsome surprise; I had not noticed it.Certainly, if it be so, the boy was nottaught it. It must have been instinctive. Undoubtedly he meant to be truthful,and s

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