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Princess knelt at the northwest corner of the room, directly in
front of the curtain which separated them from the sacrificial
hall. Several of the very near male relatives entered and gave
the low Manchu courtesy to the Princess, the son's wife, and the
eldest daughter, though none of the other kneeling ladies were
recognized. They left immediately without, so far as I noticed,
raising their eyes.
The Prince, his sons and the other mourners in the men's room
were clothed in white fur, and the servants too, who stood in the
sacrificial hall, and at intervals along the way towards the
hall, wore white fur coats instead of sackcloth.
To the left of the Princess there knelt in succession all the
secondary wives of Prince Su, and if I mistake not there were
five of these concubines. Behind the Princess knelt her son's
wife--the future Princess Su, and on her left, the daughters and
granddaughters of the Prince knelt in succession. The Princess
and secondary princesses had bands of sackcloth wound around
their heads, though their hair hung down their backs in two long
braids, and as I had never seen these princesses except when
clothed in beautifully embroidered satin garments, with hair put
up in elaborate coiffures, decked with jewels and flowers, and
faces painted and powdered in the proper Manchu fashion, it was
not easy to recognize them in these white-robed, yellow-faced
women, with hair hanging down their backs
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