one o'clock
Charlotte hurried and scurried about the room hither and thither , doing , or pretending to do many things ; then , saying something about seeing her mother , ran upstairs . Eleanor was thus left alone with Bertie , and she hardly felt an hour fly by her . To give Bertie his due credit , he could not have played his cards better . He did not make love to her , nor sigh , nor look languishing , but he was amusing and familiar , yet respectful ; and when he left Eleanor at her own door at one o'clock , which he did by the by with the assistance of the now jealous Slope , she thought that he was one of the most agreeable men and the Stanhopes decidedly the most agreeable family that she had ever met . Mr. Arabin The Rev. Francis Arabin , fellow of Lazarus , late professor of poetry at Oxford , and present vicar of St. Ewold , in the diocese of Barchester , must now be introduced personally to the reader . He is worthy of a new volume , and as he will fill a conspicuous place in it , it is desirable that he should be made to stand before the reader 's eye by the aid of such portraiture as the author is able to produce . It is to be regretted that no mental method of daguerreotype or photography has yet been discovered by which the characters of men can be reduced to writing and put into grammatical language with an unerring precision of truthful description .