two o'clock in
the afternoon
There 's the mess-bugle , your honor . Next time we hear it , it will be at say , and maybe there wo n't be many ready to attind to it . '' Denis ' prediction was verified . The vessel sailed at two o'clock in the afternoon , and by six was rolling heavily , and a brisk wind was blowing . The Twenty-eighth had not long before made the voyage from the south of France , but they had been favored by exceptionally fine weather , and had experienced nothing like the tossing they were now undergoing . The consequence was that only about half a dozen officers obeyed the bugle call to mess . There was a general feeling of satisfaction when the low coast round Ostend was sighted , for the voyage throughout had been a rough one .