Eleven
o'clock
`` Look there , '' said he . Lucy looked and there was an unfinished slab on which she read these words : Sacred to the Memory OF LUCY FONTAINE , WHO WAS DROWNED AT SEA ON THE 10TH SEPT. , 18 -- . As her beauty endeared her to all eyes , So her modesty , piety , docilit At this point in her moral virtues the chisel had stopped . Eleven o'clock struck , and the chisel went for its beer ; for your English workman would leave the d in `` God '' half finished when strikes the hour of beer . The fact is that the shopkeeper had newly set up , was proud of the commission , and , whenever the chisel left off , he whipped into the workshop and brought the slab out , _ pro tem. , _ into his window for an advertisement . Hardie pointed it out to Lucy with a chuckle . Lucy turned pale , and put her hand to her heart .