about three
o'clock
and its toleration by the powers that be . He was a big-boned , coarse man , with black , greasy hair , cut short ; projecting cheek-bones , that argued great cruelty ; dull , but lascivious eyes ; and an upper lip like a dropsical sausage . We forget now the locality in which he had committed the offence that had caused him to be brought there . But it does not much matter ; it is enough to say that he was caught , about three o'clock , perambulating the streets , considerably the worse for liquor , and not in the best society . Even as it was , and in the very face of those who had detected him so circumstanced , he was railing against the ungodliness of our `` rulers , '' the degeneracy of human nature , and the awful scourges that the existence of Popery was bringing on the land . As it happened , however , this worthy representative of his class was not without a counterpart among the moral inmates of the watch-house . Another man , who was known among his friends as a Catholic voteen , or devotee , happened to have been brought to the game establishment , much in the same circumstances , and for some similar offence .