eleven o’clock precisely
`` He says Yes , or No . If he has a notion that he will go out , he does n't wait for his horses ; they are always ready harnessed ; the coachman stops there _ inconciliably _ , whip in hand , just as you see him out there . In the evening , after dinner , my master goes one day to the Opera , the other to the Ital -- no , he has n't yet gone to the Italiens , though , for I could not find a box for him until yesterday . Then he comes in at eleven o'clock precisely , to go to bed . At any time in the day when he has nothing to do , he reads -- he is always reading , you see -- it is a notion he has . My instructions are to read the _ Journal de la Librairie _ before he sees it , and to buy new books , so that he finds them on his chimney-piece on the very day that they are published . I have orders to go into his room every hour or so , to look after the fire and everything else , and to see that he wants nothing .