eight o'clock in the morning
I should have got over my faint spell in the morning , even without the wine and biscuit , and worked on until dinner-time ; but I would n't have been able to eat anything . It almost always happens , when I go so long without food , that my appetite fails altogether , and by the time night comes , I sink down in an exhausted state , from which nature finds it hard to rally . It has been so a number of times . The week before I came here , I was sewing for a lady , and worked from eight o'clock in the morning until four in the afternoon , without food passing my lips . As I had been unable to eat anything at breakfast-time , I grew very faint , and when called to dinner , was unable to swallow a mouthful . When I got home in the evening I was feverish and exhausted , and coughed nearly all night . It was three or four days before I was well enough to go out again . ''