one o'clock
`` Why , that 'll be verra much as ye prosper , I 'm thinking . Ye 're an unaccreedited hero , the noo , as Thomas Carlyle has it . ` But gin ye do weel by yoursel ' , saith the Psalmist , ` ye 'll find a ' men speak well o ' ye ' -- if ye gang their gate . But ye 're to gang to see your uncle at his shop o ' Monday next , at one o'clock . Now stint your greeting , and read awa ' . '' On the next Monday I took a holiday , the first in which I had ever indulged myself ; and having spent a good hour in scrubbing away at my best shoes and Sunday suit , started , in fear and trembling , for my uncle 's `` establishment . '' I was agreeably surprised , on being shown into the little back office at the back of the shop , to meet with a tolerably gracious reception from the good-natured Mammonite .