seven o'clock
`` Tired nature 's sweet restorer , '' as the newspapers , in a sudden and severe poetical attack , remarked of Jeff Davis , `` refuses to bless '' Keturah , except as her own sweet will inclines her . They have a continuous lover 's quarrel , exceedingly bitter while it rages , exceedingly sweet when it is made up . Keturah attends a perfectly grave and unimpeachable lecture , -- the Restorer pouts and goes off in a huff for twenty-four hours . Keturah undertakes at seven o'clock a concert , -- announced as Mendelssohn Quintette , proving to be Gilmore 's Brassiest , -- and nothing hears she of My Lady till two o'clock , A. M. Keturah spends an hour at a prayer-meeting , on a pine bench that may have heard of cushions , but certainly has never seen one face to face ; and comes home at eight o'clock to the pleasing discovery that the fair enslaver has taken some doctrinal offence , and vanished utterly . Though lost to sight she 's still to memory dear , and Keturah penitently betakes herself to the seeking of her in those ingenious ways which she has learned at the school of a melancholy experience . A table and a kerosene lamp are brought into requisition ; also a book . If it is n't the Dictionary , it is Cruden 's Concordance .