About eleven o'clock
The players laughed . `` It 's the long dress says that , '' they observed to the other pair . `` It certain ' y is , '' replied they ; which is Southern form for `` probably . '' About eleven o'clock that same Sunday evening the _ Votaress _ , at full speed , was in a part of the river whose remarkable character sustained the son of John Courteney and the daughter of Gideon Hayle in the theory that their interest in it was all that had brought them to -- all that detained them in -- the unlighted pilothouse , on the visitors ' bench , beside Watson . Below , the passengers were for the most part once more in slumber . The exhorter had loudly sung himself to sleep : '' ` Mahch-ign thoo Im-madn-uedl 's groudnd Toe fahr-eh wordlds odn high . ' '' Madame Hayle was in her stateroom and berth , deep in sleep under the weight of her toils and assured by the players that Ramsey should go to bed when they did .