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nate to all, will prevent any public exhibition of 

 immorality. 



I shall now endeavour to depict a Sunday in 

 Vienna, a capital some writers have described 

 as being the most dissolute in Europe; which 

 character, with all due deference to superior 

 discrimination, my own experience leads me to 

 believe is undeserved. In the morning, as early 

 as six o'clock, the streets are filled with streams 

 of orderly people of all ages and sexes in holiday 

 clothes, en route to the different sanctuaries of 

 religion ; and in no city do the people seem to 

 attend more regularly to their devotional duties. 

 The magnates of the land and the aristocracy go 

 to mass somewhat later; but up to twelve o'clock 

 the churches are crowded by the different classes, 

 in whose external demeanour propriety is univer- 

 sally preserved. 



Vienna differs materially from Paris in one 

 respect, for here on the Sunday the shops are 

 all closed, the industrious classes cease to labour, 

 and the gain of the morrow is not thought 

 of. At noon all devotional observances come to 



