About eight o'clock
Mr. and Mrs. Tag-rag talked together very fast for nearly a couple of hours , sleep long fleeing from the eyes dazzled with so splendid a vision as that which had floated before them all day . At length Mr. Tag-rag , getting tired sooner than his wife , became very sullen , and silent ; and on her venturing -- after a few minutes ' pause -- to mention some new idea which had occurred to her , he told her furiously to `` hold her tongue , and let him go to sleep ! '' She obeyed him , and lay awake till it was broad daylight . About eight o'clock , Tag-rag , who had overslept himself , rudely roused her -- imperiously telling her to `` go down immediately and see about breakfast ; '' then he knocked gently at his daughter 's door ; and on her asking who it was , said in a fond way -- `` How are you , Mrs. T. ? '' While the brilliant success of Tittlebat Titmouse was exciting so great a sensation among the inmates of Satin Lodge and Alibi House , there were also certain quarters in the upper regions of society , in which it produced a considerable commotion , and where it was contemplated with feelings of intense interest ; nor without reason . For indeed to you , reflecting reader , much pondering men and manners , and observing the influence of great wealth , especially when suddenly and unexpectedly acquired , upon all classes of mankind -- it would appear passing strange that so prodigious an event as that of an accession to a fortune of ten thousand a-year , and a large accumulation of money besides , could be looked on with indifference in those regions where MONEY `` Is like the air they breathe -- if they have it not they die ; '' in whose absence , all their `` honor , love , obedience , troops of friends , '' disappear like snow under sunshine ; the edifice of pomp , luxury , and magnificence that `` rose like an exhalation , '' so disappears -- `` And , like an insubstantial pageant faded , Leaves not a rack behind . '' _ Take away money _ , and that which raised its delicate and pampered possessors above the common condition of mankind -- that of privation and incessant labor and anxiety -- into one entirely artificial , engendering totally new wants and desires , is gone , all gone ; and its occupants suddenly fall , as it were , through a highly rarefied atmosphere , breathless and dismayed , into contact with the chilling exigencies of life , of which till then they had only heard and read , sometimes with a kind of morbid sympathy ; as we hear and read of a foreign country , not stirring the while from our snug homes , by whose comfortable and luxurious firesides we read of the frightful palsying cold of the polar regions , and for a moment sigh over and shudder at the condition of their miserable inhabitants , as vividly pictured to us by adventurous travellers .