two o'clock
The world is governed a good deal by appearances . Mr. Jawleyford started life with two most unimpeachable Johns . They were nearly six feet high , heads well up , and legs that might have done for models for a sculptor . They powdered with the greatest propriety , and by two o'clock each day were silk-stockinged and pumped in full-dress Jawleyford livery ; sky-blue coats with massive silver _ aiguillettes _ , and broad silver seams down the front and round their waistcoat-pocket flaps ; silver garters at their crimson plush breeches ' knees : and thus attired , they were ready to turn out with the butler to receive visitors , and conduct them back to their carriages . Gradually they came down in style , but not in number , and , when Mr. Sponge visited Mr. Jawleyford , he had a sort of out-of-door man-of-all-work who metamorphosed himself into a second footman at short notice . ` My dear Mr. Sponge ! -- I am delighted to see you ! '