. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. aldermen as their protectors and patrons,and were ready, as in duty bound, to meet them with ho-nour, fear, and friendship. Should they act otherwise,or have the audacity to arrogate to themselves any specialprivileges because of their four towers, or defy Hermann-stadt on account of the same,—then, so they agreed, theworshipful magistrate should have full right to alter their 64 TRANSYLVANIA. edifice, as it seemed fit to him so to do, to punish theirboldness and ill-behaviour, and put down their pride
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. aldermen as their protectors and patrons,and were ready, as in duty bound, to meet them with ho-nour, fear, and friendship. Should they act otherwise,or have the audacity to arrogate to themselves any specialprivileges because of their four towers, or defy Hermann-stadt on account of the same,—then, so they agreed, theworshipful magistrate should have full right to alter their 64 TRANSYLVANIA. edifice, as it seemed fit to him so to do, to punish theirboldness and ill-behaviour, and put down their the bright gilded ball still shines in the sun, andthe turrets rise from each corner of the square tower, itwould seem that the Heltauer gave no cause of complaintto His Worship in Hermannstadt, but bore themselveswith meekness, as beseems humble village folk. In Heltau, the married men and married women sit apartin the church; the youths and maidens have also their ap-pointed places. This, which I believe is general through-out the country, gives evidence of that old subordination. and order, which prevailed in all the arrangements, socialand municipal, of the original settlers. The marriedwomen do not wear the drum before described, but ahead-gear of lawn, most nun-like in appearance. Here HERMANNSTADT. 65 too I saw the girdles worn by the women as in the othervillage, and in a house belonging to one of the wealthierinhabitants, the handsome Sunday dress of the Saxonmen. The leathern jerkin of exactly the same cut as inCromwells time, without sleeves and fastened with a belt,the iron-grey hair of its wearer, parted on the forehead,and falling in thick locks over the shoulders, gave the manbefore me quite a Puritan look. His calm thoughtful face,rendered somewhat sadder by a recent illness, his darkeyes and eyebrows, made him a remarkable figure. Tothe painter of some Cromwellian scene, that head wouldhave been invaluable. The Wallack villages around Kronstadt, live whol
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