nine in the morning
`` But , as I walked over the smoking ashes under the bright morning sky , I made a discovery . In my trouser pocket were still some loose matches . The box must have leaked before it was lost . The Trap of the White Sphinx `` About eight or nine in the morning I came to the same seat of yellow metal from which I had viewed the world upon the evening of my arrival . I thought of my hasty conclusions upon that evening and could not refrain from laughing bitterly at my confidence . Here was the same beautiful scene , the same abundant foliage , the same splendid palaces and magnificent ruins , the same silver river running between its fertile banks . The gay robes of the beautiful people moved hither and thither among the trees .