four o'clock
` I hold the world but as the world A stage where every man must play a part . ' -- SHAKESPEARE . It is four o'clock , and -- Street is wearing a very deserted appearance although it is July . The cab-drivers are more or less fast asleep in attitudes far from suggesting comfort , the sentries on guard at -- Palace look almost suffocated in their bearskins , and a comparative quiet is reigning over the great metropolis . ` Do you know , Helmdon , ' says Jimmy Dalrymple . ` I 'm nearly done ; ' these two are seated in the bow window of a well-known club .