About eight
o'clock
`` Right first time , '' he cried gleefully , and shot off like an arrow towards Manchester . So Nance Lousely had not got her pinnerfull of guineas after all . I got my wound in the early forenoon of December the 10th . About eight o'clock on the night of the 17th I sat down in a deserted shepherd 's hut to the meal Donald had got ready for me . The week had been in one respect a blank , for I had not seen Margaret . In every other respect it had been laborious , strenuous , and exciting , and we had just seen the end of the toughest job so far . We , meaning my dragoons and myself , were on the top of Shap .