Just as I was going, five or six well-known Englishmen appeared to bail me out, and were mortified to hear that they had come too late.  They begged me to forgive the laws of the land, which are only too often converted into a means for the annoyance of foreigners.

At last, after one of the most tedious days I have ever spent, I returned home and went to bed, laughing at the experience I had undergone.