eight o’clock
It is late in the winter ; Parliament and the season have commenced . I work hard , -- Heaven knows , harder than I should have worked at college . Take a day for sample . Trevanion gets up at eight o'clock , and in all weathers rides an hour before breakfast ; at nine he takes that meal in his wife 's dressing-room ; at half-past nine he comes into his study . By that time he expects to find done by his secretary the work I am about to describe . On coming home , -- or rather before going to bed , which is usually after three o'clock , -- it is Mr. Trevanion 's habit to leave on the table of the said study a list of directions for the secretary . The following , which I take at random from many I have preserved , may show their multifarious nature : -- 1 .