nine in the morning
Good old Mr. Barnes had been roused from his early slumbers by the announcement that the young man had come to be married . Married , while the early morning sun was shining , and the birds singing their morning hymn . He was almost blind , this good old vicar , who had lived so long at Oheton . He was very deaf , and could hardly hear , but then he did not require very keen sight or hearing at Oheton ; there was never more than one marriage in a year , and funerals were very rare ; but to be called before nine in the morning to perform the marriage ceremony was something unheard of . He had duly announced the bans , and no one had taken the least notice of them ; but to come so early , it was positively cruel . Others had risen early that morning . Leone had not slept well , for this July morning , which was to bring such mingled joy and sorrow to others , was a day of deepest emotion to her .