six o'clock
The multitude are like the soldiers of an army ; they will obey when the time comes ; but they are not taken into the councils of war . '' A half hour 's ride brought us into the domain of the poor . An endless procession of men and women with pails and baskets -- small-sized pails and smaller baskets -- streamed along the streets on their way to work . It was not yet six o'clock . I observed that both men and women were undersized , and that they all very much resembled each other ; as if similar circumstances had squeezed them into the same likeness . There was no spring to their steps and no laughter in their eyes ; all were spare of frame and stolid or hungry-looking . The faces of the middle-aged men were haggard and wore a hopeless expression .