Four o’clock
But I can think of nothing else , and therefore I am determined to think of this to some good purpose . You remember Murtough O'Hara 's defence of the Catholic doctrine of confession ; because , ` by his soul , his sins were always a great burden to his mind , till he had told them to the priest ; and once confessed , he never thought more about them . ' I have tried his receipt , therefore ; and having poured my secret mortification into thy trusty ear , I will think no more about this maid of the mist , Who , with no face , as ` twere , outfaced me . -- Four o'clock . Plague on her green mantle , she can be nothing better than a fairy ; she keeps possession of my head yet ! All during dinner-time I was terribly absent ; but , luckily , my father gave the whole credit of my reverie to the abstract nature of the doctrine , VINCO VINCENTEM , ERGO VINCO TE ; upon which brocard of law the professor this morning lectured . So I got an early dismissal to my own crib , and here am I studying , in one sense , VINCERE VINCENTEM , to get the better of the silly passion of curiosity -- I think -- I think it amounts to nothing else -- which has taken such possession of my imagination , and is perpetually worrying me with the question -- will she write or no ?