six in the evening
`` It was his humour , '' said he . `` He walked into society through it , and that was better worth reaching than Jerusalem . There 's Lord Petersham , the man with the beaky nose . He always rises at six in the evening , and he has laid down the finest cellar of snuff in Europe . It was he who ordered his valet to put half a dozen of sherry by his bed and call him the day after to-morrow . He 's talking to Lord Panmure , who can take his six bottles of claret and argue with a bishop after it . The lean man with the weak knees is General Scott who lives upon toast and water and has won £ 200,000 at whist .