Excerpt from A Residence in Greece and Turkey, Vol. 2 of 2: With Notes of the Journey Through Bulgaria, Servia, Hungary, and the Balkan I have been much amused, whilst passing an evening quietly with some family, when suddenly a party has walked in, appearing in characters and costumes so different from their own, that they have baffled every attempt at recognizing them some have been discovered, others guessed at, a a few of whom no one could form the remotest idea who they were. They make their visit very Short, and then proceed to another house, gene rally leavmg a subject of conversation for the whole evening at every family they visit. This game is carried on during the whole night; but such are the fatigues of the carnival, that it requires a long time for the ladies to recover the bloom they lost during that dissipated period. Fortunately for them, soon after follows the season when they quit for the country. They have a sort of apology for a theatre, at which pieces are performed in Italian; but the actors, the scenery, the house, and the audience, have all a miserable effect together. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.