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The winter months , after favouring us with rather more than our due allowance of frost and snow , had at length passed away , and March , having come in like a lion , appeared determined , after the fashion of Bottom the weaver , `` to roar that it would do any man 's heart good to hear him , '' and to kick up a thorough dust ere he would condescend to go out like a lamb , albeit , in the latter state , he might have made a shilling per pound of himself at any market , had he felt suicidally inclined . ~ 65 ~ ~ `` This will never do , '' said Oaklands to me , as , for the third time , we were obliged to turn round and cover our eyes , to avoid being blinded by the cloud of dust which a strong east wind was driving directly in our faces ; `` there is nothing in the world tires one like walking against a high wind . A quarter to three , '' added he , taking out his watch . `` I have an appointment at three o'clock . Will you walk with me ? I must turn up here . '' I assented ; and , turning a corner , we proceeded up a narrow street , where the houses , in a great measure , protected us from the wind .