nine o'clock
We meet to-night , and , hot as I am , I fear my own heat and that of others . If you wish well to Italy , be one of us . And be sure , sir , that the rescuer of our one most dearest and most prized shall be received with honor . '' I promised ; and he undertook to call upon me at nine o'clock that evening . And thus , within a day of my return to London , I found myself pledged to Italy ; and a few hours later made one of a caucus of conspirators , poor and needy and inconsiderable enough to look at , but holding in their hands , after all , one or two of the strings which , being pulled at the ripe hour of time , changed the scene for more than one land in Europe . And now it seems to me as if I might go on writing to the end of what remains of my lifetime , and never come to a finish . But I have to take hold of myself , as it were , with resolution , and to refrain from speaking of a hundred thousand things which interest me in memory .