about noon
If he have a racking headache , his general health does not usually suffer so much as though he had endured no such immediate vengeance from violated nature . Young Aby when he drank had no headaches ; but his eye was bloodshot , his cheek bloated , and his hand shook . His father , on the other hand , could not raise his head after a debauch ; but when that was gone , all ill results of his imprudence seemed to have vanished . At about noon on that day Aby was sitting by his father 's bedside . Up to that time it had been quite impossible to induce him to speak a word . He could only groan , swallow soda-water with `` hairs of the dog that bit him '' in it , and lay with his head between his arms . But soon after noon Aby did induce him to say a word or two .