one o'clock
I dare say but for that half-loaf , he would have made a trial sooner , but I doubt if he would have succeeded sooner . He did not think of going to parson , doctor , or policeman for advice ; he went walking and staring , followed by Tommy with his hands in his pocketless pocket-holes . Clare was not yet practical in device , though perfect in willingness , and thorough in design . Up one street and down another they wandered , seeing plenty of food through windows , and in carts and baskets , but never any coming their way , except in the form of tempting odours that issued from almost every house , and grew in keenness and strength toward one o'clock . Oh those odours ! -- agonizing angels of invisible yet most material good ! Of what joys has not the Father made us capable , when the poorest necessity is linked with such pain !