Capitolo 23
really one exciting day.
The procession to Voisins was a primitive bargain, but, to me, all the
more beautiful for that. It seemed so characteristic with his/her strange lanterns, his/her little
flags, his/her children and men in shirts, wondering aimlessly through the crooked one,
hilly roads of the old city, to the faucet of the drum. Nothing French
you unthread in procession, omits him both soldiers, never Marches. If you ever saw a
funeral procession that overcomes the road or one who it goes around a
church, you don't have need to be said that.
I was happy that here this small procession held so a lot of of its old-time
character, but I was sorry it was not more cheerful. Anchor, was this way
picturesque that made me repent again, what I have so a lot of times
reformed of you delay years how so a lot of of the old habits of the life of country
in France you/he/she is passing away, as they is, for that matter, entirely on
Europe, together with the ignorance and national customs.
I have to tell him that above to three years ago him it was the custom in this
common that, simply because it is not on a railroad, you/he/she has preserved
his/her old-day they air and the habits, to get married and baptismal parties to walk
in procession through the roads from the house to the church and back
again. Equal Abelard led the procession, while playing on his/her violin.
There has been but an event of some kind from when I came, and I am afraid
it will be the last. That was for the baptism of the first nephew
of a French officer that a woman was married been born in this commune, and
the oldest members of the family had a desire to hold on the old one
traditions. The church is to Quincy, only a footstep by the run of routing
nationale to Meaux. Peer walked ahead,--him you/he/she could not be accused of
marching,--meaningless street for the dear life. His/her godmother enough young
brought his/her child, in his/her marvelous elegance of baptism walking among
his/her grandmother and his/her father and the guests, all in them more cheerful