six o'clock in the
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` What are you to understand by that ? ' said he , striking the leg of his boot repeatedly with his pipe stem -- ` what are you to understand by that ? It is not very hard to understand , I should think . If a lawyer , a doctor , or a squire were to come to see you and amuse himself here with or without music , not a dog in the village would have anything to bark at ; but if they saw the schoolmaster come here at six o'clock in the afternoon -- if they saw him , I say , remain here last of all when the other guests were gone , then there would be such a stir in Israel that men would be ready to stone me . ' '' ` Do I stand , then , in such evil odour as all that ? ' '' ` I did not say that you were in any evil odour at all . ' '' ` It is true , ' he continued , ` that there are as many names written in your album as in Charles Trattner 's almanack .