six o'clock
Reader , such thoughts as these working in a mind like that of Harry Oaklands , could not be without their effect ; and when in after years , having by constant and unceasing watchfulness conquered his constitutional indolence , his voice has been raised in the senate of his country to defend the rights and privileges of our pure and holy faith -- when men 's hearts , spell-bound by his eloquence , have been turned from evil to follow after the thing that is good , memory has brought before me that conversation in the library at Heathfield ; and , as I reflected on the effect produced on the character of Oaklands by the fearful death of the homicide Wilford , I have acknowledged that the ways of Providence are indeed inscrutable . I was roused from a deep sleep at an uncomfortably early hour on the following morning , by a sound much resembling a `` view halloo , '' coupled with my own name , shouted in the hearty tones of Lawless ; and , flinging open the window , I perceived that indefatigable young gentleman employed in performing some incomprehensible manouvres with two sticks and a large flint stone , occasionally varying his diversion by renewing the rough music which had broken my slumbers . `` Why , Lawless , what do you mean by rousing me at this unreasonable hour ? it 's not six o'clock yet . And what in the world are you doing with those sticks ? '' `` Unreasonable , eh ? well , that 's rather good , now !