four
in the afternoon
Be with every nerve , With every muscle , With every drop of your red blood ! Be ! It was printed opposite the frontispiece of a magazine with a sort of scroll round it , and a picture in the middle of a fairly-nude chappie , with bulging muscles , giving the rising sun the glad eye . Rocky said they gave him a hundred dollars for it , and he stayed in bed till four in the afternoon for over a month . As regarded the future he was pretty solid , owing to the fact that he had a moneyed aunt tucked away somewhere in Illinois ; and , as he had been named Rockmetteller after her , and was her only nephew , his position was pretty sound . He told me that when he did come into the money he meant to do no work at all , except perhaps an occasional poem recommending the young man with life opening out before him , with all its splendid possibilities , to light a pipe and shove his feet upon the mantelpiece . And this was the man who was prodding me in the ribs in the grey dawn !