four o'clock
Still retaining his hold , uttering the while most fearful imprecations -- Sir Harkaway gave him three violent kicks upon the seat of honor , the last of them sending him spinning into the arms of old Mr. Quirk , who was hurrying up to his relief , and who fell flat on the floor with the violent concussion . Then Miss Quirk rushed forward and screamed ; a scene of dreadful confusion ensued ; and at length the infuriated and half-drunken baronet , forced away by his wife and his daughter , aided by several of the company , quitted the Hall , and got into his carriage , uttering fearful threats and curses all the way home ; without once adverting to the circumstance , of which also Lady Wildfire and her daughter were not aware , that he had been himself engaged in perpetrating nearly the same sort of misconduct which he had so severely and justly punished in poor Titmouse . As for Mr. Yahoo and Mr. Fitz-Snooks , they had been in quest of similar sport the whole night ; and had each of them , in pursuing their adventures in the servants ' hall , very narrowly escaped much more serious indignities and injuries than had fallen to the lot of the hospitable owner of the mansion . About half-past four o'clock , the sun was shining in cloudless splendor , the air cleared , and all nature seeming freshened after the storm of the preceding day ; but what a scene was presented at Yatton ! Two or three persons , one with his hat off , asleep ; another grasping a half-empty bottle ; and a third in a state of desperate indisposition , were to be seen , at considerable distances from each other , by the side of the carriage-road leading down to the park gates . Four or five horses , ready saddled and bridled , but neglected , and apparently forgotten by both servants and masters , were wandering about the fine green old court opposite the Hall door , eating the grass , and crushing with their hoofs the beautiful beds of flowers and shrubs which surrounded it . Mr. Glister 's gig had got its wheels entangled with the old sundial -- having been drawn thither by the horse , which had been put into it at least two hours before ; opposite the Hall door stood the post-chaise which had brought Mr. and Mrs. Mudflint and their daughter .