nine o'clock
I think we must have three play-wrights to one of yours ; but I doubt if there is wit enough in a dozen of our writers to equal your Molière , whose last comedy seems to surpass all that has gone before . His lordship had a copy from Paris last week , and read the play to us in the evening . He has no accent , and reads French beautifully , with spirit and fire , and in the passionate scenes his great deep voice has a fine effect . `` We left Fareham House at nine o'clock on a lovely morning , worthy this month of May . The lessening of fires in the city since the warmer weather has freed our skies from sea-coal smoke , and the sky last Tuesday was bluer than the river . `` The cream-coloured and gold barge , with twelve rowers in the Fareham green velvet liveries , would have pleased your eyes , which have ever loved splendour ; but you might have thought the master of this splendid barge too sombre in dress and aspect to become a scene which recalled Cleopatra 's galley . To me there is much that is interesting in that severe and serious face , with its olive complexion and dark eyes , shadowed by the strong , thoughtful brow .