The crowd was much such a one as you will sometimes meet, and avoid, in the low purlieus of London on Guy Faux day.

Carriages there were, some forty in all, chiefly English.

One hardly met a single respectable-looking person, except foreigners, in the crowd; and I own I was not sorry when I reached my destination, and got clear of the mob.
Yet the report of the police of the Pope was, that the carnival was _brilliante, e brilliantissimo_.
On the following day (Friday) much the same sort of demonstration took place in the Corso.

There being no carnival, the whole street, from the Piazza del Popolo to the Capitol, was filled with a line of carriages, going and returning at a foot's pace.

The balconies and windows were filled with spectators, and the rabble of the previous day was replaced by the same quiet, decent crowd I had seen at the Porta Pia.