eleven o'clock
Therefore , I mean to set it on the open hillside . '' Twist these words how I might , they offered no very satisfactory import . It seemed hardly probable that Hollingsworth should care about educating the public taste in the department of cottage architecture , desirable as such improvement certainly was . Hollingsworth and I -- we had been hoeing potatoes , that forenoon , while the rest of the fraternity were engaged in a distant quarter of the farm -- sat under a clump of maples , eating our eleven o'clock lunch , when we saw a stranger approaching along the edge of the field . He had admitted himself from the roadside through a turnstile , and seemed to have a purpose of speaking with us . And , by the bye , we were favored with many visits at Blithedale , especially from people who sympathized with our theories , and perhaps held themselves ready to unite in our actual experiment as soon as there should appear a reliable promise of its success . It was rather ludicrous , indeed -LRB- to me , at least , whose enthusiasm had insensibly been exhaled together with the perspiration of many a hard day 's toil -RRB- , it was absolutely funny , therefore , to observe what a glory was shed about our life and labors , in the imaginations of these longing proselytes .