midnight
`` Go , my lord , '' said Norton ; `` perhaps he wishes you to make a third luminary . Go and help him to face the sun . '' `` Be my sowl , Mr. Norton , if I 'm not much mistaken , it 's the father he 'll have to face . I may as well give you the hard word , my lord -- troth , I think you had better be on your edge ; he 's as dark as midnight , although the sun is in his face . '' His lordship went out , after having given two or three yawns , stretched himself , and shrugged his shoulders , like a man who was about to enter upon some unpleasant business with manifest reluctance . `` Ah , '' exclaimed Morty , looking after him , `` there goes a cute boy -- at last , God forgive him , he 's of that opinion himself . What a pity there 's not more o ' the family ; they 'd ornament the counthry . ''