nine in the morning
And he said : `` Well , you were wasting your time , because he is deaf and dumb , and as blind as a badger ! '' Now , was that any way for that old man 's nephew to impose on a stranger and orphan like me ? I ask you as a man and brother , if that was any way for him to do ? THE OFFICE BORE -- -LSB- Written about 1869 -RSB- He arrives just as regularly as the clock strikes nine in the morning . And so he even beats the editor sometimes , and the porter must leave his work and climb two or three pairs of stairs to unlock the `` Sanctum '' door and let him in . He lights one of the office pipes -- not reflecting , perhaps , that the editor may be one of those `` stuck-up '' people who would as soon have a stranger defile his tooth-brush as his pipe-stem . Then he begins to loll -- for a person who can consent to loaf his useless life away in ignominious indolence has not the energy to sit up straight .