About the hour of two o'clock
He slapped the door violently after him as he spoke , and left her to her own meditations . CHAPTER XXX . -- Self-sacrifice -- Villany Time passes now as it did on the night recorded in the preceding chapter . About the hour of two o'clock , on the same night , a chaise was standing at the cross roads of Tulnavert , in which a gentleman , a little but not much the worse of liquor , sat in a mood redolent of anything but patience . Many ejaculations did he utter , and some oaths , in consequence of the delay of certain parties whom he expected to meet there . At length the noise of many feet was heard , and in the course of a few minutes a body of men advanced in the darkness , one of whom approached the chaise , and asked -- `` Is that Masther Dick ? '' `` Master Dick , sirrah : no , it 's not . ''