nine o’clock
I found Lady Anne Mowbray -- talked nonsense to her ladyship for a quarter of an hour -- and at last , _ à propos _ to her perfumed fan , I brought in the old muff with the horrid smell , on purpose to obtain a full description of it . She told me that it was a gray fox-skin , lined with scarlet ; that it had great pompadour-coloured knots at each end , and that it was altogether hideous . Lady Anne declared that she was heartily glad it would never shock her eyes more . It was now just nine o'clock ; people then kept better hours than they do at present ; I was afraid that all the shops would be shut ; but I recollected that pawnbrokers ' shops were usually kept open late . I lost no time in pursuing my object . I took a hackney coach , bribed the coachman to drive very fast to Mr. Manessa -- found Manessa and Jacob going to bed sleepy -- but at sight of me Jacob was alert in an instant , and joyfully ready to go with me immediately to Baxter , the pawnbroker 's . I made Jacob furnish me with an old surtout and slouched hat , desiring to look as shabby as possible , that the pawnbroker might take me for one of his usual nightly customers , and might not be alarmed at the sight of a gentleman .