ten o'clock in the morning
`` Well , 't is true we 're getting off to France , '' said the lime-burner . `` We can drill as we travel , and there 's plenty of us for a start . '' `` Morrow we go , '' said Lajeunesse . `` The proclamation 's to be out in an hour , and you 're all to be ready by ten o'clock in the morning . His Excellency is to make a speech to us to-night ; then the General -- ah , what a fine soldier , and eighty years old ! -- he 's to give orders , and make a speech also ; and I 'm to be colonel , '' -- he paused dramatically , -- `` and you three are for captains ; and you 're to have five new yellow buttons to your coats , like these . '' He drew out gold coins and jingled them .