about ten o'clock
Do n't refuse such a small favor . '' In consequence probably of the first part of this answer , Mrs. Kent said : `` Nicholas , you 'd better take your uncle out this morning and show him a little of the village . '' Nicholas grumblingly assented . So about ten o'clock they started out . `` You 've got a good horse here , '' said Dick . `` He ought to be . Mother paid four hundred dollars for him . ''