eight o'clock
When my father heard this , he proposed that they should walk together , to which Mr. Balmy gladly consented ; it was therefore arranged that they should go to bed early , breakfast soon after six , and then walk to Sunch ` ston . My father then went to his own room , where he again smoked a surreptitious pipe up the chimney . Next morning the two men breakfasted together , and set out as the clock was striking seven . The day was lovely beyond the power of words , and still fresh -- for Fairmead was some 2500 feet above the sea , and the sun did not get above the mountains that overhung it on the east side , till after eight o'clock . Many persons were also starting for Sunch ` ston , and there was a procession got up by the Musical Bank Managers of the town , who walked in it , robed in rich dresses of scarlet and white embroidered with much gold thread . There was a banner displaying an open chariot in which the Sunchild and his bride were seated , beaming with smiles , and in attitudes suggesting that they were bowing to people who were below them . The chariot was , of course , drawn by the four black and white horses of which the reader has already heard , and the balloon had been ignored .