midnight in September
How else did the Church get the estates , of which we are now distributing so bountifully some of the last remnants down at our office ? Come into the next room , and we 'll have a smoke . '' They had their smoke , and then they went at half-price to the play ; and , after the play was over , they eat three or four dozen of oysters between them . Brooke Burgess was a little too old for oysters at midnight in September ; but he went through his work like a man . Hugh Stanbury 's powers were so great , that he could have got up and done the same thing again , after he had been an hour in bed , without any serious inconvenience . But , in truth , Brooke Burgess had still another word or two to say before he went to his rest . They supped somewhere near the Haymarket , and then he offered to walk home with Stanbury , to his chambers in Lincoln 's Inn .