eleven o'clock
`` The inhabitants of the country and of the villages which have no dykes or ramparts . '' `` It is strange . '' `` We ourselves , '' said the girl , `` are to set out at daybreak , as well as all the other people in the town . Yesterday , at eleven o'clock , all the cattle were sent to Brussels by canals and cross-roads ; therefore on the road of which you speak there must be great numbers of horses , carts , and people . '' `` I should have thought the great road better for all that . '' `` I do not know ; it was the order . '' `` But we can go on to Mechlin , I suppose ? ''