eleven o'clock in the morning
I was in that bar about three months arterward , and I never saw such a change in any woman as there was in Mrs. Dixon . Of all the nice-mannered , soft-spoken landladies I 've ever seen , she was the best , and on ' y to ` ear the way she answered her ` usband when he spoke to ` er was a pleasure to every married man in the bar . Mr. John Blows stood listening to the foreman with an air of lofty disdain . He was a free-born Englishman , and yet he had been summarily paid off at eleven o'clock in the morning and told that his valuable services would no longer be required . More than that , the foreman had passed certain strictures upon his features which , however true they might be , were quite irrelevant to the fact that Mr. Blows had been discovered slumbering in a shed when he should have been laying bricks . `` Take your ugly face off these ` ere works , '' said the foreman ; `` take it ` ome and bury it in the back-yard . Anybody 'll be glad to lend you a spade . ''