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You hear nothing but the chime of bells and the faint echoes of masses. You see on every side bolted doors and barred windows, and, gliding over the mossy pavements, the stealthy-stepping, long-robed priests.
But to go now, and to go on a commission from Caesar and Pompey! I should blush To face the men and long-robed dames of Troy. What will our optimates say, if we have any optimates left? Polydamas will throw in my teeth that I have been bribed by the opposition I mean Cato, who is one out of a hundred thousand to me. What will history say of me six hundred years hence?
About a dozen long-robed mollahs and seyuds follow with timid hesitancy in his wake. Strange to say, he makes no allusion to his illustrious step-son, the King of Kings at Teheran; and plainly betrays embarrassment when Gray mentions the fact of my having appeared before him on the wheel.
It is getting late; little by little, the siestas are everywhere coming to an end; the queer little streets brighten up and begin to swarm in the sunshine with many-colored parasols. Now begins the procession of uglinesses of the most impossible description, a procession of long-robed, grotesque figures capped with pot-hats or sailors' head-gear.
Passepartout saw, too, begging friars, long-robed pilgrims, and simple civilians, with their warped and jet-black hair, big heads, long busts, slender legs, short stature, and complexions varying from copper-colour to a dead white, but never yellow, like the Chinese, from whom the Japanese widely differ.
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