If I Had Done So, I Should Not Perhaps Have Felt
The Mortification I Then Experienced Quite So Pungent.
By some
means or other I stayed too long out, and so when I returned to
Richmond, I had forgot the name and the sign of the inn where I had
before stopped; it cost me no little trouble to find it again.
When at last I got back, I told the people what a sweet walk I had
had, and they then spoke much of a prospect from a neighbouring
hill, known by the name of Richmond Hill, which was the very same
hill from the top of which I had just been gazing at the houses in
the vale, the preceding evening. From this same kill, therefore, I
resolved the next morning to see the sun rise.
The landlady of this house was a notable one, and talked so much and
so loud to her servants, that I could not get to sleep till it was
pretty late. However, I was up next morning at three o'clock, and
was now particularly sensible of the great inconveniences they
sustain in England by their bad custom of rising so late, for as I
was the only one in this family who was up, I could not get out of
the house. This obliged me to spend three most irksome and heavy
hours till six o'clock; however, a servant at length opened the
door, and I rushed out to climb Richmond Hill.
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