eleven
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Russell will retract that harsh sentence . When he is happy , as I am sure I ardently hope he will be , in Selina 's love , he will restore me to his favour . Without his friendship , I could not be satisfied with myself , or happy in the full accomplishment of all my other fondest hopes . '' By the time that hope had thus revived and renovated our hero 's soul ; by the time that his views of things had totally changed , and that the colour of his future destiny had turned from black to white -- from all gloom to all sunshine ; the minute-hand of the clock had moved with unfeeling regularity , or , in plain unmeasured prose , it was now eleven o'clock , and three times Vivian had been warned that breakfast was ready . When he entered the room , the first thing he heard , as usual , was Miss Bateman 's voice , who was declaiming upon some sentimental point , in all `` the high sublime of deep absurd . '' Vivian , little interested in this display , and joining neither in the open flattery nor in the secret ridicule with which the gentlemen wits and amateurs listened to the Rosamunda , looked round for Lady Julia . `` She breakfasts in her own room this morning , '' whispered Lord Glistonbury , before Vivian had even pronounced her ladyship 's name .