a quarter to ten
What is the use of them ? It is only a narrow-minded or embittered man who can harbour evil thoughts about ordinary people because they are not heroes . But enough of that ! At a quarter to ten I have to go and give a lecture to my dear boys . I dress and walk along the road which I have known for thirty years , and which has its history for me . Here is the big grey house with the chemist 's shop ; at this point there used to stand a little house , and in it was a beershop ; in that beershop I thought out my thesis and wrote my first love-letter to Varya . I wrote it in pencil , on a page headed `` Historia morbi . ''