nine o'clock
`` There , there ! '' said Maxley , deprecatingly ; `` here 's two apples for ye ; ye ca n't get them for less : and a halfpenny or a haporth is all one to you , but it is a great odds to me . And apples they rot ; halfpence do n't . '' It was now nine o'clock . The bank did not open till ten ; but Maxley went and hung about the door , to be the first applicant . As he stood there trembling with fear lest the bank should not open at all , he thought hard , and the result was a double resolution : he would have his money out to the last shilling ; and , this done , would button up his pockets and padlock his tongue . It was not his business to take care of his neighbours ; nor to blow the Hardies , if they paid him his money on demand .