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XXXIV—LOO LOO.
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SCENE I.
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Xxxiv—Loo Loo.
XXXIV—LOO LOO . A FEW SCENES PBOM A TUTJE HISTOBY . _^ BY MABIA S . CHILD . ) _—d _^^ i i ¦
Scene I.
SCENE I .
Alfred Noble had grown up to manhood among the rocks and hills of a New England village . A year spent in Mobileloyed
in the duties of a clerk , had not accustomed him to the dul , emp l routine of commercial life . He longed for the sound of brooks and the
fresh air of hills . It was , therefore , with great pleasure that he received from his employer a _* message to be conveyed to a gentleman
who lived in the pleasantest suburb of the city . It was one of those bright autumnal days when the earth seems to rejoice consciously
in the light that gives her beauty . Leaving behind him the business quarter of the town , he passed
through pleasant streets bordered with trees , and almost immediately found himself amid scenes clothed with all the freshness of the
country . Handsome mansions here and there dotted the landscape , with pretty little parksenclosing orange trees and
magnoliassurrounded with hedges , of holly , in whose foliage numerous , little foraging birds were busy in the sunshine . The young man looked
at these dwellings with an exile ' s longing at his heart . He imagined groups of parents and children , brothers and sisters , under those
sheltering roofs , all strangers to him , an orphan , alone in the world . The pensiveness of his mood gradually gave place to more cheerful
thoughts . Visions of prosperous business and a happy home rose before himas he walked briskly toward the hills south of the city .
, ' The intervals between the houses increased in length , and he soon found himself in a little forest of pines . Emerging from thishe
came suddenly in sight of an elegant white villa , with colonnaded , portico and spacious verandahs . He approached it by a path through _,
a grove , the termination of which had grown into the semblance of a Gothic arch , by the interlacing of two trees , one with glossy
evergreen leaves , the other yellow with the tints of autumn . Vines had clambered to the top , and hung in light festoons from the
branches . The foliage , fluttering in a gentle breeze , caused successive ripples of sun-neckswhich chased each other over trunks and
, boughs , and joined in wayward dance with the shadows on the ground .
story * We . " are indebted to a trans-Atlantic contemporary for this " o ' wer true
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 243, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/27/
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