ten o’clock
I perceived him to be a person of profound and interesting views , and it was with regret I left him to bully Cousin Egbert into evening dress . It is undoubtedly true that he will never wear this except it have the look of having been forced upon him by several persons of superior physical strength . The evening passed in a refined manner with cards and music , the latter being emitted from a phonograph which I was asked to attend to and upon which I reproduced many of their quaint North American folksongs , such as `` Everybody Is Doing It , '' which has a rare native rhythm . At ten o'clock , it being noticed by the three playing dummy bridge that Cousin Egbert and the Mixer were absent , I accompanied our host in search of them . In Cousin Egbert 's hut we found them , seated at a bare table , playing at cards -- a game called seven-upwards , I learned . Cousin Egbert had removed his coat , collar , and cravat , and his sleeves were rolled to his elbows like a navvy 's . Both smoked the brown paper cigarettes .