Still, between the Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza di Venezia, I _made_ sixty-three baiocchi (about three shillings).

If I were to try the same joke at Paris, the _sergents-de-ville_ would very properly think it their duty to walk me off to the nearest police-station.

The Pontifical Government encourages mendicity by the protection of its agents, and recommends it by the example of its friars.

The Pontifical Government does its duty.
Prostitution flourishes in Rome, and in all the large towns of the States of the Church.

The police is too paternal to refuse the consolations of the flesh to three millions of persons out of whom five or six thousand have taken the vow of celibacy.