It is the fashion for the greatest ladies to walk the streets, which are admirably paved; and a mask, price sixpence, with a little cloak, and the head of a domino, the genteel dress to carry you everywhere.

The greatest equipage is a gondola, that holds eight persons, and is the price of an English chair.

And it is so much the established fashion for everybody to live their own way, that nothing is more ridiculous than censuring the actions of another.

This would be terrible in London, where we have little other diversion; but for me, who never found any pleasure in malice, I bless my destiny that has conducted me to a part where people are better employed than in talking of the affairs of their acquaintance.

It is at present excessive cold (which is the only thing I have to find fault with), but in recompense we have a clear bright sun, and fogs and factions things unheard of in this climate." Certainly everybody did the utmost to make Venice agreeable to Lady Mary.