Half past nine
If this intelligence be true -LRB- and I have no reason to doubt it -RRB- , your readers will draw such conclusions as their different opinions may suggest . ` I write down these remarks as they occur to me , or as the facts come to my knowledge , in order that my first impressions may lose nothing of their original vividness . I shall despatch them in small packets as opportunities arise . ' ` _ Half past nine _ . ` Some dark object has just appeared upon the wharf . I think it is a travelling carriage . ' ` _ A quarter to ten _ .