one o'clock
_ Now _ , how different ! Houseless , homeless , shelterless -- ragged , dirty , starving -- diseased , degraded , desperate ! Unhappy Sinclair , that was a fatal moment when thou did ` st yield to the fascinations of that beautiful Josephine Franklin ! It was near one o'clock , and the storm had increased to a perfect hurricane . The miserable man had eaten nothing that day ; he tottered off with weakness , and was numbed with the cold . By an irresistible impulse he wandered in the direction of his former home in Broadway . He found the house brilliantly illuminated -- strains of heavenly music issued from it -- lovely forms flitted past the windows , and peals of silvery laughter mingled with the howling of the tempest .