one o'clock
Now Jin Vin was so full of his jibes and jeers , and so willing , and so ready , and so serviceable , and so mannerly all the while , with a step that sprung like a buck 's in Epping Forest , and his eye that twinkled as black as a gipsy 's , that no woman who knew the world would make a comparison betwixt the lads . As for poor neighbour Ramsay himself , the man , '' she said , `` was a civil neighbour , and a learned man , doubtless , and might be a rich man if he had common sense to back his learning ; and doubtless , for a Scot , neighbour Ramsay was nothing of a bad man , but he was so constantly grimed with smoke , gilded with brass filings , and smeared with lamp-black and oil , that Dame Simmons judged it would require his whole shopful of watches to induce any feasible woman to touch the said neighbour Ramsay with any thing save a pair of tongs . '' A still higher authority , Dame Ursula , wife to Benjamin Suddlechop , the barber , was of exactly the same opinion . Such were , in natural qualities and public estimation , the two youths , who , in a fine April day , having first rendered their dutiful service and attendance on the table of their master and his daughter , at their dinner at one o'clock , -- Such , O ye lads of London , was the severe discipline undergone by your predecessors ! -- and having regaled themselves upon the fragments , in company with two female domestics , one a cook , and maid of all work , the other called Mistress Margaret 's maid , now relieved their master in the duty of the outward shop ; and agreeably to the established custom , were soliciting , by their entreaties and recommendations of their master 's manufacture , the attention and encouragement of the passengers . In this species of service it may be easily supposed that Jenkin Vincent left his more reserved and bashful comrade far in the background . The latter could only articulate with difficulty , and as an act of duty which he was rather ashamed of discharging , the established words of form -- `` What d'ye lack ?