midnight
So saying , she headed me , trotting down the heath-track . An illness of old Sewis , the butler , -- amazingly resembling a sick monkey in his bed , -- kept me from paying a visit to Temple and seeing my father for several weeks , during which time Janet loyally accustomed the squire to hear of the German princess , and she did it with a decent and agreeable cheerfulness that I quite approved of . I should have been enraged at a martyr-like appearance on her part , for I demanded a sprightly devotion to my interests , considering love so holy a thing , that where it existed , all surrounding persons were bound to do it homage and service . We were thrown together a great deal in attending on poor old Sewis , who would lie on his pillows recounting for hours my father 's midnight summons of the inhabitants of Riversley , and his little Harry 's infant expedition into the world . Temple and Heriot came to stay at the Grange , and assisted in some rough scene-painting -- torrid colours representing the island of Jamaica . We hung it at the foot of old Sewis 's bed . He awoke and contemplated it , and went downstairs the same day , cured , he declared : the fact being that the unfortunate picture testified too strongly to the reversal of all he was used to in life , in having those he served to wait on him .