one o'clock
Charlotte hurried and skurried about the room hither and thither , doing , or pretending to do many things ; and then saying something about seeing her mother , ran up stairs . Eleanor was then left alone with Bertie , and she hardly felt and hour fly by her . To give Bertie his due credit , he could not have played his cards better . He did not make love to her , nor sigh , nor look languishing ; but he was amusing and familiar , yet respectful ; and when he left Eleanor at her own door at one o'clock , which he did by the bye with the assistance of the now jealous Slope , she thought he was one of the most agreeable men , and the Stanhopes decidedly the most agreeable family , that she had ever met . The Reverend Francis Arabin , fellow of Lazarus , late professor of poetry at Oxford , and present vicar of St Ewold , in the diocese of Barchester , must now be introduced personally to the reader . And as he will fill a conspicuous place in this volume , it is desirable that he should be made to stand before the reader 's eye by the aid of such portraiture as the author is able to produce . It is to be regretted that no mental method of daguerreotype or photography has yet been discovered , by which the characters of men can be reduced to writing and put into grammatical language with an unerring precision of truthful description .