nine o'clock at night
But do not give way to feelings of despondency . I have seen worse cases recover . '' More active medicines than any that had yet been administered were given by the doctor , who again retired , with but little hope of seeing his patient alive in the morning . From the time Mrs. Gaston finished the garment upon which she had been working , she had not even unrolled the other roundabout , and it was now nine o'clock at night . A sense of her destitute condition , and of the pressing necessity there was for her to let every minute leave behind some visible impression , made her , after Henry and Emma were in bed , leave the side of her sick child , though with painful reluctance , and resume her toil . But , ever and anon , as Ella moaned , or tossed restlessly upon her pillow , would the mother lay by her work , and go and stand beside her in silent anguish of spirit , or inquire where she suffered pain , or what she could do to relieve her . Thus passed the hours until twelve , one , and two o'clock , the mother feeling that her child was too sick for her to seek repose , and yet , as she could do nothing to relieve her sufferings , she could not sit idly by and look upon her .