Eleven o’clock
No ; to make Flora Vyvyan agreeable to himself . The man did not presume that a fair young lady could be in love with him ; perhaps he believed that , at his years , to be impossible . But he asked what seemed much easier , and was much harder -- he asked to be himself in love . Eleven o'clock , A.M. , Samuel Adolphus Poole , Esq. , is in his parlour , -- the house one of those new dwellings which yearly spring up north of the Regent 's Park , -- dwellings that , attesting the eccentricity of the national character , task the fancy of the architect and the gravity of the beholder -- each tenement so tortured into contrast with the other , that , on one little rood of ground , all ages seemed blended , and all races encamped . No. 1 is an Egyptian tomb ! -- Pharaohs may repose there ! No. 2 is a Swiss chalet -- William Tell may be shooting in its garden !