eight o'clock
The other need not be specified ; but hers arose from the most pleasant and most human form of narrow-mindedness . As has been said before , when things did not fit with her own scheme , either they were not things , but only fancies of somebody inconsiderable , or else she resolutely disregarded them . She had an opportunity of testing her serenity on one day early in February . She rose as usual at a fixed hour -- eight o'clock -- and when she was ready knelt down at her _ prie-Dieu _ . This was quite an elaborate structure , far more elaborate than the devotions offered there . It was a very beautiful inlaid Florentine affair , and had a little shelf above it filled with a number of the little leather-bound books in which her soul delighted . She did not use these books very much ; but she liked to see them there .