and which had found utterance in the most terrific gasps and
snorts, are not to be conceived. As the sun got higher, their sleep
became lighter, and so they gradually one by one awoke. I
recollect being very much surprised by the feint everybody made,
then, of not having been to sleep at all, and by the uncommon
indignation with which everyone repelled the charge. I labour
under the same kind of astonishment to this day, having invariably
observed that of all human weaknesses, the one to which our
common nature is the least disposed to confess (I cannot imagine
why) is the weakness of having gone to sleep in a coach.
What an amazing place London was to me when I saw it in the
distance, and how I believed all the adventures of all my favourite
heroes to be constantly enacting and re-enacting there, and how I
vaguely made it out in my own mind to be fuller of wonders and
wickedness than all the cities of the earth, I need not stop here to
relate. We approached it by degrees, and got, in due time, to the
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inn in the Whitechapel district, for which we were bound. I forget
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