seven o'clock
My father had practised the attitude of Prince Albrecht Wohlgemuth on it . ` She timed me five and twenty minutes there only yesterday , ' he said ; and he now supposed he had sat the bronze horse as a statue in public view exactly thirty-seven minutes and a quarter . Tubs full of colouring liquid to soak the garments of the prince , pots of paint , and paint and plaster brushes , hinted the magnitude of the preparations . ` Here , ' said my father in another apartment , ` I was this morning apparelled at seven o'clock : and I would have staked my right arm up to the collar-bone on the success of the undertaking ! ' ` Were n't they sure to have found it out in the end , papa ? ' I inquired . ` I am not so certain of that , ' he rejoined : ` I can not quaff consolation from that source .