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Scene I.
amb ' " er You -tubed seem cigar to be from in hot his haste mouth , , sir lie . said Pray , half what laug have hing , you — been 1
hunting ? " Alfred " I have also been laug chasing hed , as 1 a he charming replied , — little girl , who would not be
caug " She ht . is Perhaps my daug she hter was / ' rejoined your daug the hter gentleman , sir ? " * " A pretty little
witch Alfred , is she thanke not d ? him Will and you said walk that in , he sir ? was " in search of a Mr .
Duncan , whose residence , was in that neighborhood . " I am , Mr . Duncan" replied the patrician . " Jack , go and fetch
, the A gentleman negro obeyed 's hat his , and orders bring , and cigars , after . " smoking awhile on the
verandah Once , when the two they gen approache tlemen walked d the house round , the they grounds heard . the pattering of fondness
of little " ' Qot £ lg feet here , and , Loo Mr . Loo Duncan ! Come called , darling out , " with , and tones see the gentleman , —
who has been running after you !" but But the the long shy red little ribbons fairy rarf of her all the gipsy faster hat , , and as they Alfred floated saw nothing behind
her on the wind . The there Declining impression rose ever a polite before on his invitation him mind a vision had to been of dine that so , he graceful vivid walked , that arch back , as with to he the walked waving city . ,
vines motions , the of undulating that beautiful flight child of the . silver How -breasted ' would his dove interest s , and the in airy the
closel scene have the Fates deepened had , interwoven could some the siby destinies l have foretold of himself to him and how that y
lovel When y little he one entered ! the counting-roomhe found his employer in
close conversation with Mr . Grossman , a wealthy cotton-broker . This man was but little more than thirty , years of age , but the prehis countenance
dominance of animal propensities was stamped upon with more distinctness than is usual with sensualists of twice his
age led . cheeks The oil his of small a thousand hams were seemed set in oozing his head throug like h his the p eyes imgrey eyes
p ; clerk seemed of a p had ig perpetuall ; delivered his mouth y his sniffing had message the the expression , savory he slapped prop of hecy a him satyr of familiarl food ; and . When y his on nose the the
shoulder " So and ' ve said been , — out to Duncan ' shave you ? Pretty nest there
at Pine you Grove , and they say he ' s got , a rare bird in it ; but he keeps her so closethat I could never catch sight of her . Perhaps you
, got " a I peep saw , a eh very ? " beautiful child of Mr . Duncan ' s / ' replied Alfred ,
" but I did not see his wife . " " That ' s very likely , " rejoined Grossman , " because he never
had any wife . "
Loo Loo. 245
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 245, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/29/
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