midnight
Divers tolerable jokes were cracked upon the justice , who eat a most unconscionable supper , and , among other things , a large plate of broiled mushrooms , which he had no sooner swallowed than the doctor observed , with great gravity , that they were of the kind called champignons , which in some constitutions has a poisonous effect . -- Mr Frogmore startled at this remark , asked , in some confusion , why he had not been so kind as to give him that notice sooner . -- He answered , that he took it for granted , by his eating them so heartily , that he was used to the dish ; but as he seemed to be under some apprehension , he prescribed a bumper of plague water , which the justice drank off immediately , and retired to rest , not without marks of terror and disquiet . At midnight we were shewn to our different chambers , and in half an hour , I was fast asleep in bed ; but about three o'clock in the morning I was waked with a dismal cry of Fire ! and starting up , ran to the window in my shirt . -- The night was dark and stormy ; and a number of people half-dressed ran backwards and forwards thro ' the court-yard , with links and lanthorns , seemingly in the utmost hurry and trepidation . -- Slipping on my cloaths in a twinkling , I ran down stairs , and , upon enquiry , found the fire was confined to a back-stair , which led to a detached apartment where Lismahago lay .