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bodice, and white sleeves: all of them had a
psalm-book wrapped in the folded silk
pocket-handkerchief. The little girls were entirely in
yellow, and with red aprons; the very least
were in Turkish-yellow clothes. The men were
dressed in black coats, like our paletôts,
embroidered with red woollen cord; a red band
with a tassel hung down from the large black
hat; with dark knee breeches, and blue stockings,
with red leather gaiters – in short, there
was a dazzling richness of colour, and that, too,
on a bright sunny morning in the forest road.
This road led down a steep to the lake, which
was smooth and blue. Twelve or fourteen
long boats, in form like gondolas, were already
drawn up on the flat strand, which here is
covered with large stones. These stones served the
persons who landed, as bridges; the boats were
laid alongside them, and the people clambered
up, and went and bore each other on land.
There certainly were at least a thousand persons
on the strand; and far out on the lake, one
could see ten or twelve boats more coming,
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