four o’clock
In the luxury of its houses , its arrangements , and its equipages , it might rival the greatest European capitals . It is a city of millionaires , enriched by the spade and pickax , and though it has not the honor of being the residence of the Czar 's representative , it can boast of including in the first rank of its notables the chief of the merchants of the town , the principal grantees of the imperial government 's mines . But the millionaires were fled now , and except for the crouching poor , the town stood empty to the hordes of Feofar-Khan . At four o'clock the Emir made his entry into the square , greeted by a flourish of trumpets , the rolling sound of the big drums , salvoes of artillery and musketry . Feofar mounted his favorite horse , which carried on its head an aigrette of diamonds . The Emir still wore his uniform . He was accompanied by a numerous staff , and beside him walked the Khans of Khokhand and Koundouge and the grand dignitaries of the Khanats .