six o'clock
It was now late , so Anthony and Isabel were conducted immediately to the Hall , an old house immediately adjoining the churchyard ; and here , too , the windows were blazing with welcome , and the tall squire , Mr. Brian , with his wife and children behind , was standing before the bright hall-door at the top of the steps . The men and boys that had brought them so far , and were standing in the little court with their torches uplifted , now threw themselves on their knees to receive the priest 's blessing , before they went home ; and Anthony blessed them and thanked them , and went indoors with his sister , strangely moved and uplifted . * * * * The two following days were full of hard work and delight for Anthony . He was to say mass at half-past six next morning , and came out of the house a little after six o'clock ; the sun was just rising to his right over a shoulder of Skiddaw , which dominated the eastern horizon ; and all round him , stretched against the sky in all directions , were the high purple moors in the strange dawn-light . Immediately in front of him , not thirty yards away , stood the church , with its tower , two aisles , and a chapel on a little promontory of rock which jutted out over the bed of the torrent along which he had climbed the night before ; and to his left lay the straggling street of the village . All was perfectly still except for the dash of the stream over the rocks ; but from one or two houses a thin skein of smoke was rising straight into the air . Anthony stood rapt in delight , and drew long breaths of the cool morning air , laden with freshness and fragrant with the mellow scent of the heather and the autumnal smells .