Accordingly, while strolling about the suburbs, the plots of waste land, the footpaths of the high road--in fact, all these places where there are few passers-by and numerous shady nooks--they conceal their identity by wrapping themselves in these long cloaks, which are capacious enough to cover a whole family.

The parents tolerate these proceedings; however stiff may be provincial propriety, no apprehensions, seemingly, are entertained.

And, on the other hand, nothing could be more charming than these lovers' rambles, which appeal so keenly to the Southerner's fanciful imagination.

There is a veritable masquerade, fertile in innocent enjoyments, within the reach of the most humble.

The girl clasps her sweetheart to her bosom, enveloping him in her own warm cloak; and no doubt it is delightful to be able to kiss one's sweetheart within those shrouding folds without danger of being recognised.