nine in the morning
`` I prefer to be stopped by the ditches , '' said Montague . `` Ah , Paul , you were not born for commerce . And I will grant you this , that commerce is not noble unless it rises to great heights . To live in plenty by sticking to your counter from nine in the morning to nine at night , is not a fine life . But this man with a scratch of his pen can send out or call in millions of dollars . Do they say here that he is not honest ? '' `` As he is my partner in this affair perhaps I had better say nothing against him . ''