about nine
o'clock
` If you are satisfied , sir , ' replied the captain , biting his lips , ` of course I have nothing more to say . Youngster , you may go to your duty , and recollect that you never again use such expressions to your superior officer , ' and , said he in a low tone , ` I may add , never venture in my presence to make such an apology as that again . ' '' I never saw old Anderson laugh so much as he did at this story of my father 's . They continued to talk and smoke their pipes till about nine o'clock , when my father and he went to the hospital , and Bramble took possession of a bed which had been prepared for him in my mother 's house . In which I learn the History of Old Nanny . The next day , as soon as I had finished a letter to Bessy , in which I gave her a detail of what had passed , I went to old Nanny 's to persuade her , if possible , to tell me her history . She was not at home , the door of her house was locked and the shutters of the shop fastened .