three o’clock in the morning
The nurse , who had all the exteriors of a bawd given to drink , sat stewing in this apartment like a damned soul in some infernal bagnio ; but rising when the company entered , made her curtsies with great decorum . -- `` Well , '' said the doctor , `` how does your patient , nurse ? '' -- `` Blessed be God for it , I hope in a fair way . To be sure his apozem has had a blessed effect -- five-and-twenty stools since three o'clock in the morning . But then , a ' would not suffer the blisters to be put upon his thighs . Good lack ! a ' has been mortally obstropolous , and out of his senses all this blessed day . ''