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And the head is usually uncovered: contrary to the broad round hats,
and depending queues, of the women inhabiting the neighbourhood of
_Saverne_. But you should know that the farmers
about Strasbourg are generally rich in pocket, and choice and dainty
in the disposition of their daughters--with respect to wedlock. They
will not deign to marry them to bourgeois of the ordinary class. They
consider the blood running in their families' veins to be polluted by
such an intermixture; and accordingly

they are oftentimes saucy, and hold their heads high. Even some of
the
fair dames coming from the high

"countre," whom we saw kneeling the other day, in the cathedral, with
their rural attire, would not commute

their circular head pieces

for the most curiously braided head of hair in the city of
Strasbourg. The utmost order and decency,

both in dress and conduct, prevail in the streets and at spectacles.
There seems to be that sober good sense among the
Strasbourgeois--which forms a happy medium between the

gaiety of their western, and the phlegm of their eastern,

neighbours; and while this
general good order obtains, we may forgive "officers for mounting
guard in white silk stockings, or for