six in the morning
For , alas ! the care and support of my mother and me weigh very heavily upon him . The proprietor of the Lacustrian has parted with his other clerk , and my brother has the entire business of not only writing , extracting for , and editing the paper , but of correcting the press , and he dares not remonstrate or demand better payment , as we live from week to week , and he could not afford to be dismissed . He is at the office all day , beginning at six in the morning to meet the central intelligence , he only rushes home for his meals , and goes back to work till twelve or one o'clock at night . Even then he can not sleep . I hear him tossing about with the pain in his back that sitting at his desk brings on , and his hands are so tired by writing , and with the heat , which has been dreadful for the last few weeks , and has taken away all the appetite he ever had . You would be shocked to see him , he is so thin and altered ; I can not think how he is to continue this , but he will not hear of my writing to Lady Travis Underwood .