All the rest of the time was devoted to revelry--a sign of the wide diffusion of moral liberty.

The whole of the Setch presented an unusual scene: it was one unbroken revel; a ball noisily begun, which had no end.

Some busied themselves with handicrafts; others kept little shops and traded; but the majority caroused from morning till night, if the wherewithal jingled in their pockets, and if the booty they had captured had not already passed into the hands of the shopkeepers and spirit-sellers.
This universal revelry had something fascinating about it.

It was not an assemblage of topers, who drank to drown sorrow, but simply a wild revelry of joy.

Every one who came thither forgot everything, abandoned everything which had hitherto interested him.