nine o'clock
How does that suit you ? '' `` Tip-top ! '' said the boy , flushing with pride . `` I 'll lie down with my clothes on ; it 's only nine o'clock and I 'll get four hours ' sleep ; that 's a lot more than Napoleon used to have ! '' He carried the Bible upstairs and just before he blew out his candle he looked again at the chapter in Numbers , thinking he would show it to Ivory privately next day . Again the story enchanted him , and again , like a child , he put his own name and his living self among the rods in the tabernacle . `` Ivory would be the prince of our house , '' he thought .