two o'clock
If Phaeton and the horses of the sun were to take a turn round the fair field these critics would find little in them to commend . They are in the primary phase of a life-long art ; perhaps with time and exceptional favours of fortune it may be given to them to learn the disarming mildness , the simplicity , that , like a water-lily , is the perfected outcome of the deep . -LSB- Illustration : A HIERARCH OF HORSE-DEALING . -RSB- Before two o'clock the magnates of the fair had left it , taking with them the cream of its contents , and in humbler people such a hunger began to assert itself as came near bringing even crubeens and Peggy 's leg within the sphere of practical politics . While slowly struggling through the swarming street the perfume of mutton chops stole exquisitely forth from the door of one of the hotels , accompanied by the sound of a subdued fusillade of soda-water corks ; over the heads of the filthy press of people round the entrance and the thirsty throng at the bar might be seen a procession of gaitered legs going upstairs to luncheon . It seemed an excellent idea . The air within was blue with tobacco smoke , flushed henchwomen staggered to and fro with arms spread wide across trays of whiskies and sodas , opening doors revealed rooms full of men , mutton chops and mastication .