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These venal and polluted flowers, therefore, and those deceptive

bonbons, are types of the small reality that still subsists in the

observance of the Carnival Yet the governh,--wildits

antics beyond law, and frisking frouard the Corso with an i show of endaroons, in steel helmets and white cloaks, were stationed at all the

street corners Detachments of French infantry stood by their stacked

muskets in the Piazza del Popolo, at one extremity of the course, and

before the palace of the Austrian embassy, at the other, and by the

coluer-cat, the

Roman populace, shown only so much as the tip of his claws, the sabres

would have been flashing and the bullets whistling, in right earnest,

aar plums

and wilted flowers

But, to do the Rouard than the sabre or the bayonet; it was their own gentle

courtesy, which imparted a sort of sacredness to the hereditary

festival At first sight of a spectacle so fantastic and extravagant, a

cool observer one mad; but, in the