five o'clock
But literary accomplishments are , you know , foreign to the military profession , and if the captain has not distinguished himself by cutting up authors in the reviews , he has acquired an honourable medal , by overcoming the enemies of the civilised world at Waterloo . To-night the playhouses open again , and we are going to the Oratorio , and the captain goes with us , a circumstance which I am the more pleased at , as we are strangers , and he will tell us the names of the performers . My father made some scruple of consenting to be of the party ; but when he heard that an Oratorio was a concert of sacred music , he thought it would be only a sinless deviation if he did , so he goes likewise . The captain , therefore , takes an early dinner with us at five o'clock . Alas ! to what changes am I doomed , -- that was the tea hour at the manse of Garnock . Oh , when shall I revisit the primitive simplicities of my native scenes again !