ten o’clock
Her mob-cap was of spotted , instead of plain net , and her check apron was replaced by a white one . With great personal inconvenience , and some pain -- for he was always worse in the morning -- Mr. Channing would on that day rise to breakfast . It had been his invariable custom to take the reading himself on Sunday -- the little time he devoted to religion -- and he was unwilling to break through it . Breakfast over , it was immediately entered upon , and would be finished by ten o'clock . He did not preach a sermon ; he did not give them much reading ; it was only a little homely preparation for the day and the services they were about to enter upon . Very unwise had it been of Mr. Channing , to tire his children with a private service before the public service began . Breakfast , on these mornings , was always a longer meal than usual .