four o'clock
Vices which are punished by our legal code had not prevented Diogenes from being a philosopher and a teacher . Cæsar and Cicero were profligates and at the same time great men . Cato in his old age married a young girl , and yet he was regarded as a great ascetic and a pillar of morality . At three or four o'clock the party broke up or they went off together out of town , or to Officers ' Street , to the house of a certain Varvara Ossipovna , while I retired to my quarters , and was kept awake a long while by coughing and headache . Three weeks after I entered Orlov 's service -- it was Sunday morning , I remember -- somebody rang the bell . It was not yet eleven , and Orlov was still asleep . I went to open the door .