noon
To enrich , and be thereby the richer ; for Roger 's actions of finance were so simple , as to run the risk of being called sublimely indistinct : he took it as an axiom that `` money bred money , '' but in what way to draw forth its generative properties , whether or not by some new-fangled manure , he was entirely ignorant ; and it clearly was his wisdom to leave all that mystery of money-making solely to the banker . All he cared about was this : to come back richer than he came -- and , lo ! how rich he was already . Lolling at high noon , on a Wednesday too , in the extremest mode of rustic beauism , with a bag of gold by his side , and a pot of porter in his hand -- here was an accumulation of magnificence -- all the prepositions pressed into his service . His wildest hopes exceeded , and almost nothing left to wish . Blown up with the pride and importance of the moment , and some little oblivious from the potent porter -- he had paid and sallied forth , and marched a mile upon his way , full of golden fancies , a rich luxurious lord as he was -- when all on a sudden the hallucination crossed his dull pellucid mind , that he had left the store behind him ! O , pungent terror !