nine o'clock
The landlord deplored the fact , and sent hospitably out to try and place them at the Elephant . But the Elephant was full , and the Russian Court was full too . Then the landlord of the Crown-Prince bethought himself of a new hotel , of the second class , indeed , but very nice , where they might get rooms , and after the delay of an hour , they got a carriage and drove away from the Crown-Prince , where the landlord continued to the last as benevolent as if they had been a profit instead of a loss to him . The streets of the town at nine o'clock were empty and quiet , and they instantly felt the academic quality of the place . Through the pale night they could see that the architecture was of the classic sentiment which they were destined to feel more and more ; at one point they caught a fleeting glimpse of two figures with clasped hands and half embraced , which they knew for the statues of Goethe and Schiller ; and when they mounted to their rooms at the Grand-Duke of Saxe-Weimar , they passed under a fresco representing Goethe and four other world-famous poets , Shakspere , Milton , Tasso , and Schiller . The poets all looked like Germans , as was just , and Goethe was naturally chief among them ; he marshalled the immortals on their way , and Schiller brought up the rear and kept them from going astray in an Elysium where they did not speak the language . For the rest , the hotel was brand-new , of a quite American freshness , and was pervaded by a sweet smell as of straw matting , and provided with steam-radiators .