Eleven o'clock
`` I , '' said Dudley , `` I have a sort of vertigo -- '' `` Listen , Dick ; listen , Jocelyn , '' said Mortimer ; `` these worthy companions have never seen our duke ; be generous , let them go first ; we shall see him first from a distance ; that will give us time to place ourselves in his sight . Is it done ? '' `` Yes , yes , '' said Dick and Jocelyn . Eleven o'clock sounded . For some moments the deck of the frigate offered a spectacle truly grand . The soldiers and marines in arms covered the gangways . The officers , bareheaded , preceding the gentlemen , slowly descended the narrow stairway which led to the apartment appropriated to the Duke of Monmouth .