three in the morning
He gave each of them , on reconducting her , tired out , to her seat , the prescribed embrace , and to the least serious of them a couple of pinches , though this latter forms no part of the ceremonial . He carried his gallantry to the extreme of dancing with Doña Casilda , who could not refuse him ; who , with her two hundred and fifty pounds of humanity , and the heat of July , perspired at every pore . Finally , Don Pedro stuffed Currito so full , and made him drink so often to the health of the newly married pair , that the muleteer Dientes was obliged to carry him home to sleep off the effect of his excesses , slung like a skin of wine across the back of an ass ! The ball lasted until three in the morning ; but the young couple discreetly disappeared before eleven , and retired to the house of Pepita . There Don Luis re-entered , with light , pomp , and majesty , and as adored lord and master , the room which , little more than a month before , he had entered in darkness , and filled with terror and confusion . Although it is the unfailing use and custom of the village to treat every widow or widower who marries again to a terrible _ charivari _ , leaving them not a moment 's rest from the cow-bells during the first night after marriage , Pepita was such a favorite , Don Pedro was so much respected , and Don Luis was so beloved , that there were no bells on this occasion , nor was there the least attempt made at ringing them -- a singular circumstance , which is recorded as such in the annals of the village . The history of Pepita and Luisito should , properly speaking , end here .