noon
In this depressed state of the classical market , Mrs Jarley made extraordinary efforts to stimulate the popular taste , and whet the popular curiosity . Certain machinery in the body of the nun on the leads over the door was cleaned up and put in motion , so that the figure shook its head paralytically all day long , to the great admiration of a drunken , but very Protestant , barber over the way , who looked upon the said paralytic motion as typical of the degrading effect wrought upon the human mind by the ceremonies of the Romish Church and discoursed upon that theme with great eloquence and morality . The two carters constantly passed in and out of the exhibition-room , under various disguises , protesting aloud that the sight was better worth the money than anything they had beheld in all their lives , and urging the bystanders , with tears in their eyes , not to neglect such a brilliant gratification . Mrs Jarley sat in the pay-place , chinking silver moneys from noon till night , and solemnly calling upon the crowd to take notice that the price of admission was only sixpence , and that the departure of the whole collection , on a short tour among the Crowned Heads of Europe , was positively fixed for that day week . ` So be in time , be in time , be in time , ' said Mrs Jarley at the close of every such address . ` Remember that this is Jarley 's stupendous collection of upwards of One Hundred Figures , and that it is the only collection in the world ; all others being imposters and deceptions . Be in time , be in time , be in time ! '