five o’clock
in the morning
Oh yes , he paints , if you please -- paints in water-colours ; like me , only better than I. His painting 's pretty bad ; on the whole I 'm rather glad of that . Fortunately he 's very indolent , so indolent that it amounts to a sort of position . He can say , ` Oh , I do nothing ; I 'm too deadly lazy . You can do nothing to-day unless you get up at five o'clock in the morning . ' In that way he becomes a sort of exception ; you feel he might do something if he 'd only rise early . He never speaks of his painting to people at large ; he 's too clever for that . But he has a little girl -- a dear little girl ; he does speak of her .