eight o'clock
The brigadier was very red . `` I have sent one of my staff to Mrs. Wilson , gentlemen , to enquire the cost of the entire ornamental fence ! I 'd advise that we pay , and -- if we 've got any -- pay in gold . '' By eight o'clock the column was in motion -- a fair day and a fair country , with all the harvest fields and the deep wooded hills and the August sky . After the rain the roads were just pleasantly wet ; dewdrops hung on the corn blades , blackberries were ripening , ox-eye daisies fringed the banks of red earth . The head of the column , coming to a by-road , found awaiting it there an old , plain country woman in a faded sunbonnet and faded check apron . She had a basket on her arm , and she stepped into the middle of the road before Little Sorrel .