morning, two o’clock
Upon this Jack , to use the expressive French phrase , `` pris la parole , '' touching with a master-like delicacy on my late defeat among the Callonbys , -LRB- which up to this instant I believed him in ignorance of ;-RRB- he expatiated upon the prospect of my repairing that misfortune , and obtaining a fortune considerably larger ; he cautiously abstained from mentioning the personal charms of the young lady , supposing , from my lachrymose look , that my heart had not yet recovered the shock of Lady Jane 's perfidy , and rather preferred to dwell upon the escape such a marriage could open to me from the mockery of the mess-table , the jesting of my brother officers , and the life-long raillery of the service , wherever the story reached . The fatal facility of my disposition , so often and so frankly chronicled in these Confessions -- the openness to be led whither any one might take the trouble to conduct me -- the easy indifference to assume any character which might be pressed upon me , by chance , accident , or design , assisted by my share of three flasks of champagne , induced me first to listen -- then to attend to -- soon after to suggest -- and finally , absolutely to concur in and agree to a proposal , which , at any other moment , I must have regarded as downright insanity . As the clock struck two , I had just affixed my name to an agreement , for Jack Waller had so much of method in his madness , that , fearful of my retracting in the morning , he had committed the whole to writing , which , as a specimen of Jack 's legal talents I copy from the original document now in my posession . `` The Plough , Cheltenham , Tuesday night or morning , two o'clock -- be the same more or less . I , Harry Lorrequer , sub . in his Majesty 's __ th regiment of foot , on the one part ; and I , John Waller , commonly called Jack Waller , of the __ th light dragoons on the other ; hereby promise and agree , each for himself , and not one for the other , to the following conditions , which are hereafter subjoined , to wit , the aforesaid Jack Waller is to serve , obey , and humbly follow the aforementioned Harry Lorrequer , for the space of one month of four weeks ; conducting himself in all respects , modes , ways , manners , as his , the aforesaid Lorrequer 's own man , skip , valet , or saucepan -- duly praising , puffing , and lauding the aforesaid Lorrequer , and in every way facilitating his success to the hand and fortune of -- '' `` Shall we put in her name , Harry , here ? '' said Jack .