two in the afternoon
He has n't much of a gift : _ but he lays it ` pon the altar _ . '' By this time Taffy had resumed his lessons . Every day he carried a book or two in his satchel with his dinner , and read or translated aloud while his father worked . Two hours were allowed for this in the morning , and again two in the afternoon . Sometimes a day would be set apart during which they talked nothing but Latin . Difficulties in the text of their authors they postponed until the evening , and worked them out at home , after supper , with the help of grammar and dictionary . The boy was not unhappy , on the whole ; though for weeks together he longed for sight of George Vyell , who seemed to have vanished into space , or into that limbo where his childhood lay like a toy in a lumber room .