four o'clock
But for poor Foker it had a radiance which dazzled and blinded him : he could see no more faults in it than in the sun , which was now flaring over the house-tops . Among other wicked London habits which Pen had acquired , the moralist will remark that he had got to keep very bad hours ; and often was going to bed at the time when sober country people were thinking of leaving it . Men get used to one hour as to another . Editors of newspapers , Covent-Garden market people , night cabmen , and coffee-sellers , chimney-sweeps , and gentlemen and ladies of fashion who frequent balls , are often quite lively at three or four o'clock of a morning , when ordinary mortals are snoring . We have shown in the last chapter how Pen was in a brisk condition of mind at this period , inclined to smoke his cigar at ease , and to speak freely . Foker and Pen walked away from Gaunt House , then , indulging in both the above amusements ; or rather Pen talked , and Foker looked as if he wanted to say something . Pen was sarcastic and dandyfied when he had been in the company of great folks ; he could not help imitating some of their airs and tones , and having a most lively imagination , mistook himself for a person of importance very easily .