about the hour of ten o'clock
Woe is me for having suggested matrimony to the tailor ! He will not long-be under the necessity of saying that he ` is blue-moulded for want of a beating . ' The butcheress will fell him like a Kerry ox , and I may have his blood to answer for , and his discomfiture to feel for , in addition to my own miseries . '' On the evening of the wedding-day , about the hour of ten o'clock , Neal -- whose spirits were uncommonly exalted , for his heart luxuriated within him -- danced with his bride 's maid ; after the dance he sat beside her , and got eloquent in praise of her beauty ; and it is said , too , that he whispered to her , and chucked her chin with considerable gallantry . The tete-a-tete continued for some time without exciting particular attention , with one exception ; but that exception was worth a whole chapter of general rules . Mrs. Malone rose up , then sat down again , and took off a glass of the native ; she got up a second time -- all the wife rushed upon her heart -- she approached them , and in a fit of the most exquisite sensibility , knocked the bride 's maid down , and gave the tailor a kick of affecting pathos upon the inexpressibles . The whole scene was a touching one on both sides .