nine o'clock in the morning
You shall see ... . Really , how luckily things have turned out ! ' There was no help for it . Instead of nine o'clock in the morning , we started at two in the afternoon . Sportsmen will sympathise with my impatience . Arkady Pavlitch liked , as he expressed it , to be comfortable when he had the chance , and he took with him such a supply of linen , dainties , wearing apparel , perfumes , pillows , and dressing-cases of all sorts , that a careful and self-denying German would have found enough to last him for a year . Every time we went down a steep hill , Arkady Pavlitch addressed some brief but powerful remarks to the coachman , from which I was able to deduce that my worthy friend was a thorough coward .