one o'clock a.m.
Lucretia , I dare say , was a most worthy sort of person , much like my cousin Hortense Moore ; but she kept her servants up very late . I should not have liked to be amongst the number of the maidens . Hortense would just work me and Sarah in that fashion , if she could , and neither of us would bear it . The ` virtuous woman , ' again , had her household up in the very middle of the night ; she ` got breakfast over , ' as Mrs. Sykes says , before one o'clock a.m. ; but _ she _ had something more to do than spin and give out portions . She was a manufacturer -- she made fine linen and sold it ; she was an agriculturist -- she bought estates and planted vineyards . _ That _ woman was a manager . She was what the matrons hereabouts call ` a clever woman . '