eight o'clock
He was popular , as being always ready to oblige every one , and , as was frequently said of him , was the very soul of honor . He certainly got no amusement from the play , working at it very hard , -- and very constantly . No one ever saw him anywhere but at the club . At eight o'clock he went home to dinner , let us hope to the wife of his bosom , and at eleven he returned , and remained as long as there were men to play with . A tedious and unsatisfactory life he had , and it would have been well for him could his friends have procured on his behoof the comparative ease of a stool in a counting-house . But , as no such Elysium was opened to him , the major went on accepting the smaller profits and the harder work of club life . In what regiment he had been a major no one knew or cared to inquire .