About seven o'clock
It is true he had no great love for the poor fellow ; still he would have been sorry to see him , from any cause of uneasiness or distress , throw himself into the hands of men who might probably induce him to join in acts which would render him subject to the severest penalties of the law . Ussher understood Thady 's character tolerably well ; and though he had no real sympathy for his sufferings , still he had manly feeling enough to wish to save him , as Feemy 's brother , from the danger into which he believed him so likely to fall . It was for the purpose of talking on this subject that he asked for Thady ; but when he found he was not in the house , nor expected home to dinner , he was obliged to postpone what he had to say till he met him at Mary Brady 's wedding . About seven o'clock , Feemy and her lover arrived at Mrs. Mehan 's little whiskey shop , where the marriage was to take place . The whole party were already there : Father John was standing with his back to a huge turf fire , in the outer room -- the usual drinking room of the establishment -- amusing the bystanders with jokes , apparently at the expense of the bridegroom . Mary Brady was dressed in a white muslin gown , which , though it was quite clean , seemed to have been neither mangled nor ironed , so multitudinous had been the efforts to make it fit her ungainly person . She had a large white cap on her head , extending widely over her ears ; and her hair , parted on her left brow , was smeared flat over her forehead with oil : her arms were bare , and quite red , and her hands were thrust into huge white cotton gloves , which seemed to make them so ashamed of themselves as utterly to unfit them for their ordinary uses .