The family live very splendidly, yet pay everybody, and (wherever they get it) are certainly in no want of money." Lady Mary seems to have had no prepared itinerary, but to have wandered as the spirit moved her--Naples, Leghorn, Turin, Genoa.

The cheapness of Italy appealed to her frugal mind.
"The manners of Italy are so much altered since we were here last, the alteration is scarce credible.

They say it has been by the last war.

The French, being masters, introduced all their customs, which were eagerly embraced by the ladies, and I believe will never be laid aside; yet the different governments make different manners in every state.

You know, though the republic is not rich, here are many private families vastly so, and live at a great superfluous expense: all the people of the first quality keep coaches as fine as the Speaker's, and some of them two or three, though the streets are too narrow to use them in the town; but they take the air in them, and their chairs carry them to the gates.