eleven o'clock
A very ready consent to this was given by both partners ; I am afraid I might say an eager consent . `` There ! now I feel another man , that is off me anyway , '' and Meadows strode home double the man . Soon his new top-boots were on , and his new dark blue coat with flat double-gilt buttons , and his hat broadish in the brim , and he looked the model of a British yeoman ; he reached Grassmere before eleven o'clock . It was to be a very quiet wedding , but the bridesmaids , etc. , were there , and Susan all in white , pale but very lovely . Father-in-law cracking jokes , Susan writhing under them . `` Now , then , is it to be a wedding without bells , for I hear none ? ''