ten o’clock precisely
He reads the newspapers , does n't he ? Well , my instructions are to put them always in the same place , on the same table . I always go at the same hour and shave him myself ; and do n't I tremble ! The cook would forfeit the annuity of a thousand crowns that he is to come into after my lord 's death , if breakfast is not served _ inconciliably _ at ten o'clock precisely . The menus are drawn up for the whole year round , day after day . My Lord the Marquis has not a thing to wish for . He has strawberries whenever there are any , and he has the earliest mackerel to be had in Paris .