about seven in the
morning
SUNDAY . Now , my dear , by what I have already written , it is become in a manner necessary to acquaint you briefly with the method my dear Mr. B. not only permits , but encourages me to take , in the family he leaves to my care , as to the Sunday _ duty _ . The worthy dean , at my request , and my beloved 's permission , recommended to me , as a sort of family chaplain , for Sundays , a young gentleman of great sobriety and piety , and sound principles , who having but lately taken orders , has at present no other provision . And this gentleman comes , and reads prayers to us about seven in the morning , in the lesser hall , as we call it , a retired apartment , next the little garden ; for we have no chapel with us here , as in your neighbourhood ; and this generally , with some suitable exhortation , or meditation out of some good book , which he is so kind as to let me choose now-and-then , when I please , takes up little more than half an hour . We have a great number of servants of both sexes : and myself , Mrs. Jervis , and Polly Barlow , are generally in a little closet , which , when we open the door , is but just a separation from the hall . -- Mr. Adams -LRB- for that is our young clergyman 's name -RRB- has a desk at which sometimes Mr. Jonathan makes up his running accounts to Mr. Longman , who is very scrupulous of admitting any body to the use of his office , because of the writing in his custody , and the order he values himself upon having every thing in . About seven in the evening he comes again , and I generally , let me have what company I will , find time to retire for about another half hour ; and my dear Mr. B. connives at , and excuses my absence , if enquired after ; though for so short a time , I am seldom missed .