three in the morning
If either of you were to die ! And she likes you so much , and thinks you so accomplished and distingue-looking , and was just as set as I was to have you for best man . ` Mr. Loudon , ' she calls you ; seems to me so friendly ! And she sat up till three in the morning fixing up a costume for the marriage ; it did me good to see her , Loudon , and to see that needle going , going , and to say ` All this hurry , Jim , is just to marry you ! ' I could n't believe it ; it was so like some blame ' fairy story . To think of those old tin-type times about turned my head ; I was so unrefined then , and so illiterate , and so lonesome ; and here I am in clover , and I 'm blamed if I can see what I 've done to deserve it . '' So he poured forth with innocent volubility the fulness of his heart ; and I , from these irregular communications , must pick out , here a little and there a little , the particulars of his new plan .