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folk that have so far more of those little emotions, that 

 we try and believe our own especial property, than we 

 generally think, and shut themselves off from all 

 outsiders in their heart sorrows and inner joys. 



I took to heart the good advice offered, and spent 

 the mid-day hours under the shade of some vast walnut 

 trees growing in a village, whose houses they served to 

 shade, and watched some men gathering mulberries, 

 first beating the branches with long bamboos, then 

 stripping the boughs by climbing into them, putting 

 the fruit in one basket and the leaves for the silkworms 

 into the other with the smaller trees they simply 

 chopped off the branches. Sharing my laziness were 

 some well-to-do city folk, the women quite extra- 

 ordinarily graceful, and with the beautiful straight 

 features of Romans, the turned-back white linings 

 of their head-dress and sleeves looking most becoming 

 against the deep blues and purples of their pherans. 



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