Three o’clock
O philosophers ! go in quest of pleasure ! find us amusements without brutality , enjoyments without selfishness ; in a word , invent a Carnival that will please everybody , and bring shame to no one . Three o'clock . -- I have just shut my window , and stirred up my fire . As this is a holiday for everybody , I will make it one for myself , too . So I light the little lamp over which , on grand occasions , I make a cup of the coffee that my portress 's son brought from the Levant , and I look in my bookcase for one of my favorite authors .