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Updated: May 12, 2025
White, ghostly moths fluttered, cloud-like, over the quiet garden, and here and there a tiny lamp-bearer starred the night. A flaming meteor sped across the uncharted dark of the heavens, where only the love-star shone. The moon had not yet risen. From within, Evelina recognised the sturdy figure of Piper Tom, and went out to meet him as he approached.
Redgrave kept close beside her until he was satisfied that these exquisite inhabitants of the new-found fairyland were innocent of any intention of harm, and when he saw two of the winged daughters of the Love-Star put up their hands and touch the thick coils of her hair, he said: "Take those pins and things out and let it down. They seem to think that your hair's part of your head.
The clear, sweet notes rang up through the midst of a sudden silence. The sons and daughters of the Love-Star instantly ceased their own soft musical conversation, and Zaidie sang the old plantation song through for the first time that a human voice had sung it to ears other than human.
The blue rays of the love-star burned low upon the grey horizon, that star towards which the eyes of women yearn and which women's feet are fain to follow, though, like a will-o'-the-wisp, it leads them through strange and difficult places, and into the quicksands. The body grows slowly, but the soul progresses by leaps and bounds.
In stature the inhabitants of the Love-Star varied from about five feet six to five feet, but both the taller and the shorter of them were all of nearly the same size, from which it was easy to conclude that this difference in stature was on Venus as well as on the Earth, one of the broad distinctions between the sexes.
For him, perhaps, it had been indeed the love-star, but she had followed it, with breaking heart, into the quicksands. To shut out the sight of it, Miss Evelina closed the blinds and lighted a candle, then sat down again, to think. There was a dull, uncertain rap at the door.
The resplendent hemisphere of the Love-Star sank swiftly down into the vault of Space, growing smaller and dimmer as the Astronef sped towards the little black spot on the face of the Sun, which to them was like a buoy marking a place of utter and hopeless shipwreck in the Ocean of Immensity. The chronometer, still set to Earth-time, had now begun to mark the last hours of the Astronef's voyage.
"If you had done that on Mars it might have been even more effective than the Maxims." "For goodness sake don't talk about things like that in a heaven like this! Oh, listen! They've got the tune already!" It was true! The dwellers of the Love-Star, whose speech was song, had instantly recognised the sweetness of the sweetest of all earthly songs.
"I may take the moon," she replied. "I've always liked the looks of it, but I'm afraid the sun would burn my fingers. Somebody once got into trouble, I believe, for trying to drive the chariot of the sun for a day. Give me the moon and just one star." "Which star do you want?" "The love-star," she answered, very softly. "Will you keep it shining for me, in spite of clouds and darkness?"
There he saw the same star that had peered at him through the window of his study at Carlton House Terrace, the same that had sparkled out in the sky the night that he and Matt Peke had trudged the road together, and which Matt had described as "the love-star, an' it'll be nowt else in these parts till the world-without-end-amen!"
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