half after ten
cried my man , `` and cheaper too ! Many thanks to you for an honest young gentleman . '' Fra Palamone ordered me to resume my old part of deaf-mute . The procession of the day , which , of course , put an end to all marketing for the time , began at half after ten , with High Mass set for eleven o'clock . It was a pompous business -- the nuns of San Vincenzio , two and two , with lighted tapers ; their friends of the world , ladies in hoops and feathers , attendant cavaliers ; Donna Violante , widow of the Grand Prince Ferdinand , deceased -- a stout black-eyed woman of middle age , under-dressed and over-painted . She had a court about her of half a dozen gentlemen , twice that number of ladies , and three black boys to hold her train . Donna Camilla Pallavicini may have been there , but I did not see her .