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richer neighbours, make a grotesque appear- 

 ance, being dressed in a gay gown, without 

 the accompaniment of shoes or stockings. It 

 is customary to wear white silk stockings 

 with these black dresses, and often coloured 

 shoes, which we Europeans should consider 

 bad taste. 



On these occasions a lover watches his 

 opportunity for following close after his fair 

 enslaver, and kneeling beside her, their ideas 

 partake rather more of terrestrial, than celes- 

 tial subjects. Soft whispers convey tender 

 sentiments and mutual wishes, and these 

 places of devotion become the medium of 

 assignations, by no means likely to improve 

 the morals of the country. 



At the conclusion of mass, the ladies have, 

 in retiring, to endure the same ordeal as on 

 their entry, as but few men attend the mass, 

 unless they have some particular object in 



