about
eleven o'clock
I observed that he never went to dinner ; indeed , that he never went anywhere . As yet I had never , of my personal knowledge , known him to be outside of my office . He was a perpetual sentry in the corner . At about eleven o'clock though , in the morning , I noticed that Ginger Nut would advance toward the opening in Bartleby 's screen , as if silently beckoned thither by a gesture invisible to me where I sat . The boy would then leave the office , jingling a few pence , and reappear with a handful of ginger-nuts , which he delivered in the hermitage , receiving two of the cakes for his trouble . He lives , then , on ginger-nuts , thought I ; never eats a dinner , properly speaking ; he must be a vegetarian , then ; but no ; he never eats even vegetables , he eats nothing but ginger-nuts . My mind then ran on in reveries concerning the probable effects upon the human constitution of living entirely on ginger-nuts .