ten o'clock
Extra ! '' Thus the city sits , baffled by itself , looking out upon a tick-tock of windows and reading with a wonder in its thought , `` Who are these people ? ... '' At ten o'clock the courts of the city crowd up . The important gentlemen who devote themselves to sending people to jail and to preventing them from being sent to jail , appear with fat books under their arms and brief-cases in their hands . They have slept well and eaten well and have arrived at their tasks with clear heads containing arguments . These are arguments vastly more important than poems that writers make or histories that dreamers invent .