about eleven o'clock at
night
-- do n't you ? ' Oliver , aged but thirteen , assented , as he habitually did to any question which seemed to await an affirmative . ` They ought to be swept off the face of the earth ! ' pursued Godwin , sitting up in bed -- for the dialogue took place about eleven o'clock at night . ` All the grown-up creatures , who ca n't speak proper English and do n't know how to behave themselves , I 'd transport them to the Falkland Islands , ' -- this geographic precision was a note of the boy 's mind , -- ` and let them die off as soon as possible . The children should be sent to school and purified , if possible ; if not , they too should be got rid of . ' ` You 're an aristocrat , Godwin , ' remarked Oliver , simply ; for the elder brother had of late been telling him fearful stories from the French Revolution , with something of an anti-popular bias .