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Rome in 1860

CHAPTER XI
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The chances are that its occupants are English or Americans.

On the most crowded day there are, perhaps, at one time, fifty carriages in all, of which more than half belong to the _forestieri_.

Indeed, if it were not for our Anglo-Saxon countrymen, there would be no carnival at all.

We don't contribute much, it is true, to the brilliancy of the _coup d'oeil_.
Our gentlemen are in the shabbiest of coats and seediest of hats, while our ladies wear grey cloaks, and round, soup-plate bonnets.

However, if we are not ornamental, we are useful.


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