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SCENES AT A HERO'S SHRINE. 175
gevity, she walking on the side towards the houses
and the rosy maiden on that towards the walls
and moat. As they came opposite the castle gate,
out of which a samurai youth was coming to
traverse the bridge over the moat, we might have
noticed though the old lady didn't that one
of the maiden's sleeves, which was towards the
young man, was waved to and fro for a minute
or two. That was all ;
no salutations took place,
no words were spoken but the ;
young man looked
pleased and seemed very happy, while his heart
went pitapat as if he had been running, though
he was quietly walking. All Japanese maidens of
susceptible age were apt to know what the " pendulum-sleeve
" meant, while another metaphor for
the gayeties of wooing was derived from the butterfly
that coyly
flits and flirts with the flowers.