Days near Rome . ich has supported him already fifty times along the same road,and this may perhaps be the last time : the matron passes with her grand-children ; the beautiful and blooming maiden; the sturdy youth, theboy ; even infants are here carried on the heads of their mothers, for inone of these processions I saw a young woinan carrying on her head abasket in which lay a laughing child, its eyes wide open as if it was en-joying the beautiful sunshine. Most of the women carry on their headsa basket of provisions, or a bundle of clothes, which still more increasesthe beauty of the specta
Days near Rome . ich has supported him already fifty times along the same road,and this may perhaps be the last time : the matron passes with her grand-children ; the beautiful and blooming maiden; the sturdy youth, theboy ; even infants are here carried on the heads of their mothers, for inone of these processions I saw a young woinan carrying on her head abasket in which lay a laughing child, its eyes wide open as if it was en-joying the beautiful sunshine. Most of the women carry on their headsa basket of provisions, or a bundle of clothes, which still more increasesthe beauty of the spectacle. If any one could lift up the veil fromthese souls they would see concealed crime side by side with innocence,and vice, remorse, pam, and virtue passing in a motley crowd. THE GENAZZANO PILGRIMAGE. 28s It is like a great and beautiful but serious masked procession whichpasses over one of the most beautiful scenes of nature, always with freshdresses and colours, and with different faces. One sees the people of. Contadino, Valley of the Sacco. Frosinone, of Anagni, the inhabitants of Veroli, of Arpino, of Anticoli,of Ceprano, and the Neapolitans from Sora. See the groups from Sora ! dark olive complexions and beautiful 286 DA YS NEAR ROME. oval faces. The women look fantastic, like the Arab women ; they areadorned with strings of coral or golden chains round their necks, andheavy gold eamngs ; their heads are covered with white or brown ker-chiefs, with long fringes, which hang down upon the neck like a ma-donnas veil: they wear white chemisettes quite loose though folded in
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