eight o'clock
A long upper lip , a large , firm , and not quite ugly mouth , with a chin both long and square , completed a face which , with its low forehead , being yet longer than usual , had a particularly equine look . He was rather under the middle height , slender , and well enough made -- altogether an ordinary mortal , known on ` Change as an able , keen , and laborious man of business . What his special business was I do not know . He went to the city by the eight o'clock omnibus every morning , dived into a court , entered a little square , rushed up two flights of stairs to a couple of rooms , and sat down in the back one before an office table on a hair-seated chair . It was a dingy place -- not so dirty as it looked , I daresay . Even the windows , being of bad glass , did , I believe , look dirtier than they were . It was a place where , so far as the eye of an outsider could tell , much or nothing might be doing .