eleven o'clock
But the foreigner did not understand this either . `` And to think that these Porsslanese dogs have received him with laughter ! '' said he . At eleven o'clock on the same evening the Emperor was closeted with his aged field-marshal , von Balderdash , in a handsomely furnished sitting-room . A Turk 's head had been set up in the middle of the room , and His Majesty , dressed in the uniform of a cavalry general , was engaged in making passes at it with a saber . He had already taken a ride on horseback with his staff . The field-marshal stood wearily leaning against the wall at the side of a desk piled up with papers .