It passed slowly and solemnly through the town from the hill and up the hill again; and not soon shall I forget the mournfulness of the music, which nothing of tawdriness in the constituents of the procession itself could rid of impressiveness and beauty.

One thing is certain--all processions, by day or night, should first descend a hill and then ascend one.

All should walk to melancholy strains.

Indeed, a joyful procession becomes an impossible thought after this.
And then I sank luxuriously into a corner seat in the waiting tram, and, seeking for the return journey's thirty centimes, found that during the proceedings my purse had been stolen..