midnight
It was already five o clock , and in this incomparable city of Samarkand scene succeeded scene . There ! I am getting into that way of looking at it now . Certainly the spectacle should finish before midnight . But as we start at eight o'clock , we shall have to lose the end of the piece . But as I considered that , for the honor of special correspondents in general , it would never do to have been at Samarkand without seeing Tamerlane 's tomb , our arba returned to the southwest , and drew up near the mosque of Gour Emir , close to the Russian town . What a sordid neighborhood , what a heap of mud huts and straw huts , what an agglomeration of miserable hovels we have just been through !