about six
o'clock
`` He 's rich now , the chap is ; he 'll marry a lady ! '' This was the hardest to bear of all the slights , for not alone had I lost all pretension to my father 's property , but the raggedness of my clothes and the general misery of my appearance might have saved me from the reproach of what is so forcibly termed `` blood-money . '' `` Come over to me this evening , '' said Father Rush ; and they were the only words of comfort I heard from any side . `` Come over to me about six o'clock , Con , for I want to speak to you . '' They were long hours that intervened between that and six . I could not stay in the town , where every one I met had some sneer or scoff against me ; I could not go home , I had none ! and so I wandered out into the open country , taking my course towards a bleak common , about two miles off , where few , if any one , was like to be but myself .