ten o'clock
If I thought he did n't , I 'd send one of my niggers to show him the road . I wonder who was his lackey last year , that he wants me to be his 'n this time . It do n't convene to one of our free and enlightened citizens , to tag arter any man , that 's a fact ; it 's too English and too foreign for our glorious institutions . He 's bound by law to be there at ten o'clock , and so be I , and we both know the way there I reckon . ' `` I told the story to our minister , Mr. Hopewell -LRB- and he has some odd notions about him , that man , though he do n't always let out what he thinks -RRB- . Says he , ` Sam , that was in bad taste ' -LRB- a great phrase of the old gentleman 's that -RRB- , ` in bad taste , Sam . That ` ere sheriff was a goney ; do n't cut your cloth arter his pattern , or your garment wo n't become you , I tell you .