nine o'clock in the evening
It was a bitter hour to him . Mr. Watson and Levi conferred together as they walked home . From that time no one passed in or out of the miser 's house without being observed . Levi watched that day ; but at nine o'clock in the evening , Mr. C. Augustus Ebénier took his place , to serve for the night . If Mrs. Dock Vincent had not been a person of higher moral purposes than her husband , sad indeed would have been the lot of the two children that slept in the captain 's state-room on board of the Caribbee . As is often the case , she knew less of her husband 's moral obliquity than the world at large , though even she knew enough to believe that he was not what he should be . People did not tell her of Dock 's wicked deeds , and he complained bitterly to her of the hard treatment which the world bestowed upon him .