about ten o'clock at night
No , sir . The town will , not I . She asked me if he had gone out , not if he had returned . '' It was about ten o'clock at night . The last rockets lazily soared into the dark sky , where paper balloons shone like new stars . Some of the fireworks had set fire to houses and were threatening them with destruction ; for this reason men could be seen on the ridges of the roofs carrying buckets of water and long bamboo poles with cloths tied on the ends . Their dark shadows seemed descended from ethereal space to be present at the rejoicings of human beings .