one o'clock
Nay , tell me how you class your wealth of books The drifted relics of all time . As well sort them at once by size and livery : Vellum , tall copies , and the common calf Will hardly cover more diversity Than all your labels cunningly devised To class your unread authors . In consequence of what he had heard from Fred , Mr. Vincy determined to speak with Mr. Bulstrode in his private room at the Bank at half-past one , when he was usually free from other callers . But a visitor had come in at one o'clock , and Mr. Bulstrode had so much to say to him , that there was little chance of the interview being over in half an hour . The banker 's speech was fluent , but it was also copious , and he used up an appreciable amount of time in brief meditative pauses . Do not imagine his sickly aspect to have been of the yellow , black-haired sort : he had a pale blond skin , thin gray-besprinkled brown hair , light-gray eyes , and a large forehead . Loud men called his subdued tone an undertone , and sometimes implied that it was inconsistent with openness ; though there seems to be no reason why a loud man should not be given to concealment of anything except his own voice , unless it can be shown that Holy Writ has placed the seat of candor in the lungs .