Noon
And , greatly to my annoyance , -- in the circumstances , -- I was made a hero of , and showered with three times as many invitations as I could accept . The whole story got abroad , even to the awakening of the duke in Covent Garden . And that clownish Mr. Foote , of the Haymarket , had added some lines to a silly popular song entitled ` The Sights o ' Lunnun ' , with which I was hailed at Mrs. Betty 's fruit-stall in St. James 's Street . Here is one of the verses : `` In Maryland , he hunts the Fox From dewy Morn till Day grows dim ; At Home he finds a Paradox , From Noon till Dawn the Fox hunts him . '' Charles Fox laughed when he heard it . But he was serious when he came to speak of Chartersea , and bade me look out for assassination . I had Banks follow me abroad at night with a brace of pistols under his coat , albeit I feared nothing save that I should not have an opportunity to meet the duke in a fair fight .