midnight
Others attempted to edge in their hand and word of joy , who were crowded back by those before them . It was no dream . It was their own worshipped Clinton in their arms . And it remains only for the present to relate , that the marriage ceremony , though delayed longer than any one was aware , till Father Lovelight at last gave the hour , was still performed , and rare and high was the joy that made Uncle Walter forget his story , and Mrs. Flaxman her song ; and was carried on by that glorious company full to the very midnight . Tilly Troffater had bitterly repented the crime of the boy 's abduction , to which he was accessary , and he received not a moment 's respite from the tortures of hell , that tore his anguished heart , till he heard where Clinton remained ; went , and informed him of his parents , and home , and directed his steps to that door . But the young man 's story is reserved for another volume , on another labor of life .