morning, noon
Little Christchurch would do just as well for him as for Grundle . If he do n't think much of the girl he must think something of the sheep . '' Not think much of the girl ! Just at this time Jack was talking to his mother , morning , noon , and night , about Eva , and threatening young Grundle with all kinds of schoolboy punishments if he should persevere in his suit . Only yesterday he had insulted Abraham grossly , and , as I had reason to suspect , had been more than once out to Christchurch on some clandestine object , as to which it was necessary , he thought , to keep old Crasweller in the dark . And then to be told in this manner that Jack did n't think much of Eva , and should be encouraged in preference to look after the sheep ! He would have sacrificed every sheep on the place for the sake of half an hour with Eva alone in the woods .