ten in the morning
Cougham had cautioned him against the heresy of plumping . They discoursed of the poor and their beverages , of pothouses , of the anti-liquorites , and of the duties of parsons , and the value of a robust and right-minded body of the poor to the country . Palmet found himself following them into a tolerably spacious house that he took to be the old gentleman 's until some of the apparatus of an Institute for literary and scientific instruction revealed itself to him , and he heard Mr. Tomlinson exalt the memory of one Wingham for the blessing bequeathed by him to the town of Bevisham . ` For , ' said Mr. Tomlinson , ` it is open to both sexes , to all respectable classes , from ten in the morning up to ten at night . Such a place affords us , I would venture to say , the advantages without the seductions of a Club . I rank it next -- at a far remove , but next-the church . ' Lord Palmet brought his eyes down from the busts of certain worthies ranged along the top of the book-shelves to the cushioned chairs , and murmured , ` Capital place for an appointment with a woman . '