midnight
Town lighted up ; more Lunatics out than ever ; a complete choke and stoppage of the thoroughfare outside the Betting Rooms . Keepers , having dined , pervade the Betting Rooms , and sharply snap at the moneyed Lunatics . Some Keepers flushed with drink , and some not , but all close and calculating . A vague echoing roar of ` t ' harses ' and ` t ' races ' always rising in the air , until midnight , at about which period it dies away in occasional drunken songs and straggling yells . But , all night , some unmannerly drinking-house in the neighbourhood opens its mouth at intervals and spits out a man too drunk to be retained : who thereupon makes what uproarious protest may be left in him , and either falls asleep where he tumbles , or is carried off in custody . Tuesday morning , at daybreak . A sudden rising , as it were out of the earth , of all the obscene creatures , who sell ` correct cards of the races . '