midday
With the next morning , this fact had become quite evident to the general disgust of all within Bertragh Castle . The Dark Master himself visited the cell , and upon finding that Brian was lost in a half stupor and muttering words in Spanish which no one understood , he angrily ordered that he be revived and finished with that afternoon . Red Murrough set about the task with savage determination . By dint of sea water externally and mingled wine and uisquebagh internally he had Brian wakened to a semblance of himself before midday . Then food , oil , and bandages about his wounds , and in another hour Brian was feeling like a new man . He was under no misapprehension as to the cause of this kindness , but cared little . So keenly had he suffered that he was glad to reach the end , and he walked out behind Red Murrough that afternoon with a ghastly face , but with firm mouth and firmer stride , though he was very weak and half-drunk with the liquors he had swallowed .