half past ten
This order was continually repeated , and the money thus received is the only salary of the performers , whose singing is villanously vile , and whose character is worse than their singing . A canal , extending from the sea , comes up to Tivoli , and passes around an island . Boats are to let here ; and , indeed , there is no end to the variety of amusements , and `` all for nine cents , '' as Joseph had said half a dozen times during the afternoon to his party , and a dozen times more during the evening . At half past ten the students returned to the squadron , for by that time they had seen all they desired . Peaks sat near the brig and read his book , which he had procured from the librarian in anticipation of a dull and heavy afternoon . Clyde sat in his cage , watching the boatswain . The book was evidently a very interesting one , for the reader hardly raised his eyes from it for a full hour , and then only to bestow a single glance upon the occupant of the ship 's prison .