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I go to bed after midnight, jaded and restless from the dissipations of the day - I start every hour from my sleep, at the horrid noise of the watchmen bawling the hour through every street, and thundering at every door; a set of useless fellows, who serve no other purpose but that of disturbing the repose of the inhabitants; and by five o'clock I start out of bed, in consequence of the still more dreadful alarm made by the country carts, and noisy rustics bellowing green pease under my window.
Tobias George Smollett,The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1966, p.136-137.
PLACE: London, England
TIME: Middle of the l8th century
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