about two o'clock
They seemed both of them to be converted into parts of that stately and sumptuous machine which Mr. Cartwright had constructed around him , and of which he was himself the main spring . The number of servants was greatly increased , the equipages were much more splendid , and from an establishment remarkably simple and unostentatious for the income of its owners , the Park became one of the most magnificent in the country . Among the periodical hospitalities with which the vicar , -- for Mr. Cartwright was still Vicar of Wrexhill , -- among his periodical hospitalities was a weekly morning party , which opened by prayers read by his curate , and ended by a blessing pronounced by himself . At about two o'clock a déjeûner à la fourchette was laid in the dining-room , around which were discussed all the serious , and serio-political , and serio-literary subjects of the day . On this occasion the selection of company , though always pious , was not so aristocratical as at the pompous dinners occasionally given at the Park . But what was lost to vanity on one side by the unconspicuous rank of some of the guests , was gained to it on the other by the profound veneration for their host expressed in every word and in every look . Not only Mr. Corbold , the lawyer , -- who was indeed in some sort ennobled by his relationship to the great man himself , -- but the new curate , and the new apothecary , and even the new schoolmaster , were admitted .