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244 loo loo.
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Scene I.
Arrested by this unusual combination of light and shade , color and formthe young man stood still for a moment to gaze upon it .
He was thinking , to himself that nothing could add to the perfection of its beautywhen suddenlthere came dancing under the arch a
figure that seemed , like the y fairy of those woods , a spirit of the mosses and the vines . She was a child , apparently five or six years
old , with large brown eyes , and a profusion of dark hair . Her gihatornamented with scarlet ribbons and a garland of red
psy , holly-berries , had fallen back on her shoulders , and her cheeks were flushed with exercise . A pretty little white dog was with her ,
leaping up eagerly for a cluster of holly-berries which she playfully shook above his head . She whirled swiftly round and round the
frisking animal , her long red ribbons flying on the breeze , and then she paused , all in a glow , swaying herself back and forth , like a flower
on its stem . A flock of doves , as if attracted toward her , came swooping down from the sky , revolving in graceful curves above her
head , their white breasts glistening in the sunshine . The aerial movements of the child were so full _& of life and joyshe was so
, in harmony with the golden day , the waving vines , and the circling dovesthat the whole scene seemed like an allegro movement in
music , , and she a charming little melody floating through it all . Alfred stood like one enchanted . He feared to speak or move ,
lest the fairy should vanish from mortal presence . So the child and the dog , equally unconscious of a witness , continued their graceful
gambols for several minutes . An older man might have inwardly moralised on the folly of the animal , aping humanity in thus
earnestly striving after what would yield no nourishment when obtained . But Alfred was too young and too hapj ) y to moralize . The present
moment was all-sufficient for him , and stood still there in all its fulness , unconnected with past or future . This might have lasted
long , had not the child been attracted by the dove-shadows , and , looking up to watch the flight of the birdsher eyes encountered
, the young man . A whole heart full of sunshine was in the smile with which he greeted her . But , with a" tetartled look , she turned
quickly and ran away ; and the dog , still full of frolic , went bounding by her side . As Alfred tried to pursue them , a bough knocked off
his hat . Without stopping to regain it , he sprang over a hollyhedge , and came in view of the verandah of a housejust in time
, to see the fairy and her dog disappear behind a trellis covered with the evergreen foliage of the Cherokee rose . Conscious of the
impropriety of pursuing her farther , he paused to take breath . As he passed his hand through his hair , tossed into masses by running
against the wind , he heard a voice from the verandah exclaim , — " Whither so fast , Loo Loo ? Come hereLoo Loo !"
, Glancing upward , he saw a patrician-looking gentleman , in a handsome morning gownof Oriental fashionand slippers richly
embroidered . He was reclining , on a lounge , with , wreaths of smoke
floating before him ; but seeing the stranger , he rose , and taking the
244 Loo Loo.
244 loo loo .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/28/
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