eight o'clock
His lordship thought that the clock was wrong ; but waited with his usual patience , though missing it from the length of custom , instead of being happy . But when it was come to an hour too late for the proper attack of the enemy , his lordship sent orders for Stixon 's boy to take a good horse and ride to Pangbourne for a highly respectable lawyer . There was no time to fetch Mr. Spines , you see , miss , the proper solicitor , who lives in London . The gentleman from Pangbourne was here by eight o'clock ; and then and there his lordship made his will , to supersede all other wills . He put it more clearly , the lawyer said , than he himself could have put it , but not , of course , in such legal words , but doubtless far more beautiful . Nobody in the house was forgotten ; and the rule of law being , it seems , that those with best cause to remember must not witness , two of the tenants were sent for , and wrote down their names legitimate . And then his lordship lay back and smiled , and said , ` I shall have no more pain . '