nine o’clock in the morning
in a public room . His excuse is that his mother is starving . Will you kindly take him to the Hall , and put him in charge of the gardener , with my strict orders that he is to do a good afternoon 's work at weeding in the shrubbery . And that the gardener is to see that he comes every day at nine o'clock in the morning , and works there till four in the afternoon , till the day you reopen school , meal-times and Sundays excepted . I will pay his mother five shillings a week , and , if he is a good boy , I 'll give him some old clothes . And if ever you see or hear of his disgracing himself and his friends by begging again , if you do n't thrash him within an inch of his life , I shall . ' I promise you , the widow might starve for the want of that five shillings if the young gentleman could slip out of his bargain .