eight o'clock
`` Glory be ! '' he exclaimed , as he reached her . `` That was about the worst ! I was just tellin ' Abe that I felt the great earthquake of '68 in this very house , in that very room , by gum , although I was up and dressed , for it was eight o'clock , and I 'd gone back for my pipe . So , I know what I 'm talkin ' about , Miss Isabel , when I say that this was about four times as bad -- '' `` Please saddle my horse . '' `` Yes , marm . Wisht I could have got out of bed .