nine at night
Until he was `` taken up '' by Eric , he had been a regular little hero among his compeers , because he was game for any kind of mischief , and , in the new tone of popular morality , his fearless disregard of rules made him the object of general admiration . From this time , however , he was much in the studies , and unhappily carried with him to those upper regions the temptation to worse and more injurious follies than had yet penetrated there . It was an ill day for General Wildney when he sent his idolised little son to Roslyn ; it was an ill day for Eric when Duncan first asked the child to frequent their study . It was past nine at night , and the lower-school had gone to bed , but there was Wildney quietly sitting by the study are , while Duncan was doing some Arnold 's verses for him to be shown up next day . `` Bother these verses , '' said Duncan , `` I shall have a whiff . Do you mind , Eric ? '' `` No ; not at all . ''