Noon, afternoon, evening
He was not displeased though , on second thoughts , to have been taken for an ill-conditioned common country fellow ; but rather congratulated himself upon it as a proof that he was well disguised . Wandering into a copse by the road-side -- but not in that place ; two or three miles off -- he tore out from a fence a thick , hard , knotted stake ; and , sitting down beneath a hayrick , spent some time in shaping it , in peeling off the bark , and fashioning its jagged head with his knife . The day passed on . Noon , afternoon , evening . Sunset . At that serene and peaceful time two men , riding in a gig , came out of the city by a road not much frequented . It was the day on which Mr Pecksniff had agreed to dine with Montague .