ten minutes past three o’clock in
the morning
cried Mrs. Nicholas Nickleby , ` it sounds very well . ' Having dispatched the ceremony , with its attendant festivities , to the perfect satisfaction of her own mind , the sanguine mother pictured to her imagination a long train of honours and distinctions which could not fail to accompany Kate in her new and brilliant sphere . She would be presented at court , of course . On the anniversary of her birthday , which was upon the nineteenth of July -LSB- ` at ten minutes past three o'clock in the morning , ' thought Mrs. Nickleby in a parenthesis , ` for I recollect asking what o'clock it was ' -RRB- , Sir Mulberry would give a great feast to all his tenants , and would return them three and a half per cent on the amount of their last half-year 's rent , as would be fully described and recorded in the fashionable intelligence , to the immeasurable delight and admiration of all the readers thereof . Kate 's picture , too , would be in at least half-a-dozen of the annuals , and on the opposite page would appear , in delicate type , ` Lines on contemplating the Portrait of Lady Mulberry Hawk . By Sir Dingleby Dabber . ' Perhaps some one annual , of more comprehensive design than its fellows , might even contain a portrait of the mother of Lady Mulberry Hawk , with lines by the father of Sir Dingleby Dabber .