morning, noon
Pay for the article yourself , Mr. Vavasor , and then it 's your own . That 's what I always say . '' Mr. Grimes went to work strenuously , almost fiercely , in the opposite interest , telling all that he knew , and perhaps more than he knew , of Vavasor 's circumstances . He was at work morning , noon , and night , not only in his own neighbourhood , but among those men on the river bank of whom he had spoken so much in his interview with Vavasor in Cecil Street . The entire Vavasorian army with its placards was entirely upset on more than one occasion , and was once absolutely driven ignominiously into the river mud . And all this was done under the direction of Mr. Grimes . Vavasor himself was pelted with offal from the sinking tide , so that the very name of the River Bank became odious to him .