five in the morning
Vanyusha for his part approved of Beletski , remarking that he was a real gentleman . Beletski at once adopted the customary life of a rich officer in a Cossack village . Before Olenin 's eyes , in one month he came to be like an old resident of the village ; he made the old men drunk , arranged evening parties , and himself went to parties arranged by the girls -- bragged of his conquests , and even got so far that , for some unknown reason , the women and girls began calling him grandad , and the Cossacks , to whom a man who loved wine and women was clearly understandable , got used to him and even liked him better than they did Olenin , who was a puzzle to them . It was five in the morning . Vanyusha was in the porch heating the samovar , and using the leg of a long boot instead of bellows . Olenin had already ridden off to bathe in the Terek . -LRB- He had recently invented a new amusement : to swim his horse in the river . -RRB-