a quarter to eleven
It will be the same with you who wonder , my sons , whatever your prowess may be , in cricket , or scholarship , or foot-ball . Two or three years , more or less , and then the steadily advancing , blessed wave will pass over your names as it has passed over ours . Nevertheless , play your games and do your work manfully -- see only that that be done , and let the remembrance of it take care of itself . The chapel-bell began to ring at a quarter to eleven , and Tom got in early , took his place in the lowest row , and watched all the other boys come in and take their places , filling row after row ; and tried to construe -LSB- 8 -RSB- the Greek text which was inscribed over the door with the slightest possible success , and wondering which of the masters , who walked down the chapel and took their seats in the exalted boxes at the end , would be his lord . And then came the closing of the doors , and the Doctor , in his robes , and the service , which , however , did n't impress him much , for his feeling of wonder and curiosity was too strong . And the boy on one side of him was scratching his name on the oak paneling in front , and he could n't help watching to see what the name was , and whether it was well scratched ; and the boy on the other side went to sleep and kept falling against him ; and on the whole , though many boys even in that part of the School , were serious and attentive , the general atmosphere was by no means devotional ; and when he got out into the close again , he did n't feel at all comfortable , or as if he had been to church . -LSB- 8 -RSB- #Construe # : translate .