But if the nobility were not present on the Via Nomentana, they were equally absent from the Corso.

The footpaths were thronged with a dense file of orderly respectable people.
There were, perhaps, half-a-dozen carriages, the owners of which had some sort of carnival-dress on, but that was all.

There were no cries, no throwing of confetti, no demonstration of feeling, except in the very fact of the assemblage.

As far as I could guess from my own observation, there were about 6000 people present, and from 400 to 500 carriages; though persons who ought to be well informed have told me that there were double these numbers.

No attempt at interference was made on the part of the French.