nine o'clock
Patience , thou young and rose-lipped cherubim ! Aye there , look grim as hell ! '' Othello , Act 4 , scene 2 . Saint Werner 's clock , with `` its male and female voice , '' has just told the university that it is nine o'clock . A little crowd of Saint Wernerians is standing before the chapel door , and even the grass of the lawn in front of it is hardly sacred to-day from common feet . The throng composed of undergraduates , dons , bedmakers , and gyps , is broken into knots of people , who are chatting together according to their several kinds ; but they are so quiet and expectant that the very pigeons hardly notice them , but flutter about and coo and peck up the scattered bread-crumbs , just as if nobody was there . If you look attentively round the court , you will see , too , that many of the windows are open , and you may detect faces half concealed among the window curtains .