six
o'clock in the morning
I take them everywhere . '' I was afterwards convinced -LRB- and so was Ada -RRB- that from the ill-conditioned eldest child , these words extorted a sharp yell . He turned it off into a yawn , but it began as a yell . `` They attend matins with me -LRB- very prettily done -RRB- at half-past six o'clock in the morning all the year round , including of course the depth of winter , '' said Mrs. Pardiggle rapidly , `` and they are with me during the revolving duties of the day . I am a School lady , I am a Visiting lady , I am a Reading lady , I am a Distributing lady ; I am on the local Linen Box Committee and many general committees ; and my canvassing alone is very extensive -- perhaps no one 's more so . But they are my companions everywhere ; and by these means they acquire that knowledge of the poor , and that capacity of doing charitable business in general -- in short , that taste for the sort of thing -- which will render them in after life a service to their neighbours and a satisfaction to themselves . My young family are not frivolous ; they expend the entire amount of their allowance in subscriptions , under my direction ; and they have attended as many public meetings and listened to as many lectures , orations , and discussions as generally fall to the lot of few grown people .