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 ¬when the obstruction would cease. — We found, however, to our cost that this calculation was rather sanguine, though it is so difficult to mea- sure time when we wish it to pass quickly, that I shall content myself with saying that we ar- rived at last in the door-way of a magnificent apartment, when I overheard my friend, who was just before me, asking several persons as they passed him to give him some general idea of where the lady of the house was to be found, and so impossible was it to have approached her, wherever she might have been, that, instead of a passage being forced by any man or woman, pat- ting all ceremony out of the question, I am confi- dent, that, if we had been at the bottom of Snow- Hill, the most furious bullock, escaping out of Smithfield, would not have made an attempt upon the crowd that was before us — the in- stinctive wisdom of the brute would have pro- tected mankind in the zenith of this folly. ¬The heat now became excessive, and nobody f 4 seemed ¬ 7*) ¬seemed