ten o'clock on Saturday
As for _ teaching _ -- he felt quite unfit for it ; he had not the least inclination for it ; 't was a cheerless scene of exertion ; in which , as it were , he felt his energies _ perishing in the using _ . The BAR was the profession to which his tastes and inclinations , and , he hoped , his qualifications , pointed him . One of the first things he did , on reaching London , was to apply for information to one consummately qualified to guide him in the matter . He wrote to the Attorney-General , soliciting an interview at his chambers upon the subject of entering the profession ; and received an immediate answer , appointing ten o'clock on Saturday , on which day the Attorney-General expected to be partially free from public engagements . Precisely at that hour , Mr. Aubrey entered the chambers of that distinguished person , whose arrival he had anticipated . Poor Aubrey felt a little nervous and depressed as the fussy clerk showed him into the room -- _ as he fancied _ , and only fancied -- with an air of patronizing civility , as if aware of his diminished personal consequence . He stood for a minute or two very close to Mr. Aubrey , with a sort of confidence in his manner as he rubbed his hands , and glibly observed on the innumerable engagements of the Attorney-General , which slightly -- _ very slightly _ -- displeased Mr. Aubrey , suggesting the idea of undue familiarity .