midnight
His nervous melancholic temperament indicates rather a seriousness too deep for him . Of those stories of ` Spectres ; ' of the white Spectre in broad daylight , predicting that he should be King of England , we are not bound to believe much ; -- probably no more than of the other black Spectre , or Devil in person , to whom the Officer _ saw _ him sell himself before Worcester Fight ! But the mournful , over-sensitive , hypochondriac humour of Oliver , in his young years , is otherwise indisputably known . The Huntingdon Physician told Sir Philip Warwick himself , He had often been sent for at midnight ; Mr. Cromwell was full of hypochondria , thought himself near dying , and `` had fancies about the Town-cross . '' These things are significant . Such an excitable deep-feeling nature , in that rugged stubborn strength of his , is not the symptom of falsehood ; it is the symptom and promise of quite other than falsehood ! The young Oliver is sent to study Law ; falls , or is said to have fallen , for a little period , into some of the dissipations of youth ; but if so , speedily repents , abandons all this : not much above twenty , he is married , settled as an altogether grave and quiet man .