midnight
`` I still have an objection , '' said Albert , `` to yonder impudent rakehelly fellow , styling himself a cavalier , who rushed himself on our company last night , and gained my father 's heart by a story of the storm of Brentford , which I dare say the rogue never saw . '' `` You mistake him , dear Albert , '' replied Rochecliffe -- `` Roger Wildrake , although till of late I only knew him by name , is a gentleman , was bred at the Inns of Court , and spent his estate in the King 's service . '' `` Or rather in the devil 's service , '' said Albert . `` It is such fellows as he , who , sunk from the license of their military habits into idle debauched ruffians , infest the land with riots and robberies , brawl in hedge alehouses and cellars where strong waters are sold at midnight , and , with their deep oaths , their hot loyalty , and their drunken valour , make decent men abominate the very name of cavalier . '' `` Alas ! '' said the Doctor , `` it is but too true ; but what can you expect ? When the higher and more qualified classes are broken down and mingled undistinguishably with the lower orders , they are apt to lose the most valuable marks of their quality in the general confusion of morals and manners -- just as a handful of silver medals will become defaced and discoloured if jumbled about among the vulgar copper coin .