half past nine o'clock
I put it into my pocket and did n't think on it , for some days afterwards . That night after we got home from the Roller Coaster , I felt dretful sort a down hearted about Abram Gee , I see in that little incident of the day , that Bial , although I could n't like him , yet I see he had his good qualities , I see how truthful he wuz . And although I love truth -- I fairly worship it -- yet I felt that if things wuz as he said they wuz , he would more 'n probable get Ardelia Tutt , for I know the power of Ambition in her , and I felt that she would risk the chances of happiness , for the name of bein ' a Banker 's Bride . So I sat there in deep gloom , and a chocolate colored wrapper , till as late as half past nine o'clock P. M. And I felt that the course of Abram 's love wuz not runnin ' smooth . No , I felt that it wuz runnin ' in a dwindlin ' torrent over a rocky bed , and a precipitus one . And I felt that if he wuz with me then and there , if we did n't mingle our tears together we could our sithes , for I sithed , powerful and frequent . Poor short-sighted creeter that I wuz , a settin ' in the shadow , when the sun wuz jest a gettin ' ready to shine out onto Abram and reflect off onto my envious heart .