text:  Then the populace lounges with interminable leisure in their churches on their promenades round the doors of coffee-houses that are never closed either day or night; they follow their religious processions; they cluster with an easy good-natured curiosity round every thing that wears the appearance of a fete; taking whatever amusement presents itself without caring to detain it and quitting it without the least distrust that some other quite as good will occupy its place