eleven
o'clock
This thing of deciding life for himself was a serious business . It would be very silly to jump into a career with slaves , coarse and degrading , just because a fool happened to be teaching at the County Academy . He must think this thing over . Tired as he was , he lay awake until eleven o'clock , thinking , thinking for himself . It was lonesome work , too , this thinking for himself . If his father had only done the thinking for him , it would have been so much easier to accept his decision and then rebel if he did n't like it . He returned to the field next morning with renewed determination .