eleven
o'clock
There is some of the old Canary left . '' `` Let me have a bottle , and , if agreeable to thee , we will empty it together . '' As the landlord left the room , Arundel , on looking round , discovered what he had not observed before , viz. , our old friend , Master Pront , in a sort of recess , formed by the projection of the chimney . The worthy functionary was engaged , at the moment , in taking his eleven o'clock refreshment of a pot of beer , -LRB- a habit from which his exile from the old country had not been able to wean him , -RRB- but , at the approach of the young man , he rose , and gravely shook hands with him . Miles had barely time to offer a share of the wine , which , however , Master Prout refused , when Nettles returned with a bottle . `` There , '' said he , setting it down , and looking affectionately at it , `` I warrant me you get no such soul of the grape among the red heathen , though if they had any wit they might have puncheons of it , if they only knew how to make them , for they say there is store of grape vines growing about . '' `` As for me , '' said Master Prout , after raising the tankard to his lips , and taking a draught , long and deep , `` I 'm a genuine Englishman in my taste .