about three o'clock
`` Yes , miss , I have some books down to-day . '' While Miss Evans was selecting from the new books , enter Mr Jones , Mr Smith , and Mr Claville , of the marine corps , for cigars . Amelia comes out to attend them -- they purchase a few articles , and are talking very loud , when three more ladies enter the shop , all for books . It being now about three o'clock , the customers and loungers come in fast . Captain Bridgeman saunters away in company with his brother officers ; other parties enter , who are succeeded by fresh claimants for books or the other articles to be procured in the repository . This demand continues till about five o'clock , when the library becomes empty ; I come home from school , my father slinks in from barracks , and my mother and sister return to the back parlour , where they find my grandmother , as usual , very busy with her knitting . Such is a fair sample of what took place at our shop every succeeding day .