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 to take any notice of each other, fur- ther than the constant repetition on every side of " Kee see ! Kee see ! Asmate ! Asmate /" which, I found afterwards, were exclamations, that the pressure of the crowd and the difficulty of respiration were intolerable. — My face was now running* down with sweat, as if I had been in a vapour-bath, but without the possibility of having recourse to my handkerchief, both my hands being as completely pinned down as if I had been on my way to Newgate under a com- mitment for murder. I will fairly own, never- theless, that amidst all this misery I was so cap- tivated with even the transient view of the most exquisitely beautiful women, that I was making a desperate and despairing effort for a nearer view of them, by an assault upon the door-way into the first apartment, when my friend, pulling me by the sreeve with one of his hands, which with great dexterity he had dis- engaged for my relief, told me that, supposing I could have succeeded, it was much too late, ¬as ¬