about four o’clock
Say he died a true Catholic ; it will serve him on the hustings . Meet us in Athlone on Saturday , and bring your uncle 's mare with you . He says he 'd rather ride home . And tell Father Mac Shane , to have a bit of dinner ready about four o'clock , for the corpse can get nothing after he leaves Mountmellick . No more now , from Yours ever , HARRY BOYLE To CHARLES O'MALLEY , Esq. , O'Malley Castle , Galway . When this not over-clear document reached me I was the sole inhabitant of O'Malley Castle , -- a very ruinous pile of incongruous masonry , that stood in a wild and dreary part of the county of Galway , bordering on the Shannon . On every side stretched the property of my uncle , or at least what had once been so ; and indeed , so numerous were its present claimants that he would have been a subtle lawyer who could have pronounced upon the rightful owner .