nine in the morning
To me it has been exceptionally so . During two years I have had three consultations and one small job , and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought me . My gross takings amount to £ 27 10 _ s _ . Every day , from nine in the morning until four in the afternoon , I waited in my little den , until at last my heart began to sink , and I came to believe that I should never have any practice at all . `` Yesterday , however , just as I was thinking of leaving the office , my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who wished to see me upon business . He brought up a card , too , with the name of ` Colonel Lysander Stark ' engraved upon it . Close at his heels came the colonel himself , a man rather over the middle size , but of an exceeding thinness .