about the hour of one p.m.
-- JUVENAL . -LSB- `` But what excellence or prosperity so great that there should be an equal measure of evils for our joys ? '' -RSB- We are now transported to a father and a son of a very different stamp . It was about the hour of one p.m. , when the door of Mr. Vavasour Mordaunt 's study was thrown open , and the servant announced Mr. Brown . `` Your servant , sir ; your servant , Mr. Henry , '' said the itinerant , bowing low to the two gentlemen thus addressed . The former , Mr. Vavasour Mordaunt , might be about the same age as Linden 's father . A shrewd , sensible , ambitious man of the world , he had made his way from the state of a younger brother , with no fortune and very little interest , to considerable wealth , besides the property he had acquired by law , and to a degree of consideration for general influence and personal ability , which , considering he had no official or parliamentary rank , very few of his equals enjoyed .