three in the afternoon
Signed : Oignard , first clerk ; Poidevin , second clerk ; Proust , clerk ; Augustin Coret , sub-clerk . At the office . November , 1806 . At three in the afternoon , the above-named clerks hereby return their grateful thanks to their excellent master , who regaled them at the establishment of the Sieur Rolland restaurateur , rue du Hasard , with exquisite wines of three regions , to wit : Bordeaux , Champagne , and Burgundy , also with dishes most carefully chosen , between the hours of four in the afternoon to half-past seven in the evening . Coffee , ices , and liqueurs were in abundance . But the presence of the master himself forbade the chanting of hymns of praise in clerical stanzas . No clerk exceeded the bounds of amiable gayety , for the worthy , respectable , and generous patron had promised to take his clerks to see Talma in `` Brittanicus , '' at the Theatre-Francais .