about six o'clock
`` Very well , '' said Hope , after a long silence ; and no more was said about it . He took his wages and walked away up the street , absorbed in thought . One morning , he went to his lodgings to seek a little rest . It was about six o'clock , and people were already moving in the hot , thirsty streets . The apothecaries ' doors were open , and their clerks were astir . The physicians drove or walked hastily , with the haggard look of men whose days and nights are too short for their work , and whose hope , and heart as well , have grown almost too small . Zerviah noticed those young Northern fellows among them , Frank and Remane , and saw how they had aged since they came South , -- brave boys , both of them , and had done a man 's brave deed .