six in the morning
Bless me ! I came near being caught at it ! My oldest sister was out at service with the Mayor of Lenclos , and she sent home her wages -- twenty-four francs -- it was always as much as that . The second worked at dressmaking in bourgeois families ; but they did n't pay the prices then that they do to-day ; she worked from six in the morning till dark for eight sous . Out of that she wanted to put some by for a dress for the fête on Saint-Remi 's day . -- Ah ! that 's the way it is with us : there are many who live on two potatoes a day for six months so as to have a new dress for that day .