six o'clock
Amid cheers from those delegates who were pleased , from those who had self-control enough to conceal their vexation , and from the public in the galleries -LRB- for Dr. Svensen was the most widely popular figure in the Assembly -RRB- , the new President took his place and made the appropriate speech , in his sonorous English . Many in the hall were bored , some because the new President was known to be in with the English , who are not always liked by other nations ; some because he spoke English readily and French ill , and most of them understood French readily and English not at all ; others because he was of the party which was bent on carrying out certain measures in Europe for which they saw no necessity . However , Dr. Svensen , a brief person and no word-waster , did not detain his audience long . At six o'clock the Assembly adjourned . Henry despatched a short scornful story of the proceedings to his newspaper -LRB- which would not , he knew , print a long or effusive one -RRB- , and dined with another English journalist in a café in the old _ cité _ . The other journalist , Grattan , came from Paris , and was bored with the League and with Geneva . He preferred to report crime and blood , something , as he said , with guts in it .