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I saw the funeral procession of the girl winding its way by the light of paper lanterns the wan dead glow that is like a shimmer of phosphorescence to the Street of the Temples, followed by a long train of women, white-hooded, white-robed, white-girdled, passing all soundlessly a troop of ghosts.
The pieces stacked into lids are round and have nothing to suggest those of which the cells and the final barricade are made. Excepting the first, those nearest the honey, they are perhaps cut a little less neatly than the disks of the White-girdled Leaf-cutter; no matter: they stop the jar perfectly, especially when there are some ten of them one above the other.
For the last time I see his face again, as he lies upon his bed of death white-robed from neck to feet white-girdled for his shadowy journey but smiling with closed eyes in almost the same queer gentle way he was wont to smile at class on learning the explanation of some seeming riddle in our difficult English tongue.
The White-girdled Leaf-cutter likes the robinia, to which she adds, in lavish proportions, the vine, the rose and the hawthorn and sometimes, in moderation, the reed and the whitish-leaved rock-rose. I have not known her to use any other materials than the wild briar and the hawthorn. Incomplete though it be, this list tells us that the Megachiles do not have exclusive botanical tastes.
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