three minutes after one
what 's that you say , Doctor ? '' said the Baronet , awakened from his apathy . `` He speaks tamned nonsense , '' said the Captain , pulling out a huge , old-fashioned , turnip-shaped implement , with a blackened silver dial-plate . `` It is not above three minutes after one by the true time , and I will uphold Mr. Tyrrel to be a man of his word -- never saw a man take a thing more coolly . '' `` Not more coolly than he takes his walk this way , '' said the Doctor ; `` for the hour is as I tell you -- remember , I am professional -- have pulses to count by the second and half-second -- my timepiece must go as true as the sun . '' `` And I have mounted guard a thousand times by my watch , '' said the Captain ; `` and I defy the devil to say that Hector MacTurk did not always discharge his duty to the twentieth part of the fraction of a second -- it was my great grandmother , Lady Killbracklin 's , and I will maintain its reputation against any timepiece that ever went upon wheels . '' `` Well , then , look at your own watch , Captain , '' said Winterblossom , `` for time stands still with no man , and while we speak the hour advances .