about three o'clock in the afternoon
Had he been of popular manners , he would probably have succeeded , but he was not a favorite among the poorer classes , and their vote must be considered . There is an old saying , `` Like father , like son , '' and Clarence , now turned sixteen , the only child of the country magnate , was like his father in all objectionable qualities . He was quite as much impressed with ideas of his own consequence . It was about three o'clock in the afternoon . Mr. Ray sat on the piazza , the day being unusually warm , reading a newspaper . In the street near by , his son Clarence was moving swiftly on a new velocipede which his father had just purchased for him . `` Out of the way , there ! ''