Nine o’clock
If inspiration comes at forty , it will be a hundred pities to have tied up my money-bag at thirty . '' `` Well , I give you till forty , '' said Cecilia . `` It ` s only a word to the wise , a notification that you are expected not to run your course without having done something handsome for your fellow-men . '' Nine o'clock sounded , and Bessie , with each stroke , courted a closer embrace . But a single winged word from her mother overleaped her successive intrenchments . She turned and kissed her cousin , and deposited an irrepressible tear on his moustache . Then she went and said her prayers to her mother : it was evident she was being admirably brought up .