E. M.
November, 1908.
[1]. The man said a great deal more which we could not catch.
[2]. I remember that on account of the wind I put on my coat.
[3]. The woman was standing on the steps, bending slightly forward, holding a jug in her hand. The girl was looking up at her from below with her hands raised, but nothing in them. She might have been just going to take the jug or have just given it up. Her light-brown hair escaped from under her cap. I remember that both seemed to pause for an instant, as in a tableau vivant; but we passed on, and I did not see the end.
[4]. By old I mean old or unusual forms, perhaps surviving in provincial French.
[5]. One man wore red, the other blue; the colours were not mixed.
[6]. I thought this gardener did not look like a Frenchman; he had more the air of an Englishman. He had hair on his face, a grizzled beard, was large and loosely made. His height was very uncommon, and he seemed to be of immense strength. His arms were long and very muscular. I noticed that even through the sleeves of his jersey.
[7]. Archives Nationales OI, 1878.