twelve o'clock
As the game proceeded he became more and more excited ; the others were accustomed to the thing , and concealed their eagerness ; but Kennedy , who was younger and more inexperienced than any of them , threw himself into the game , and drank heedlessly of the wine that freely circulated . Surely if guardian spirits attend the footsteps of youth , one angel must have wept that evening `` tears such as angels weep '' to see him with his flushed face and sparkling eyes , eagerly seizing the sums he won , or , with clenched hand and contracted brow , anxiously awaiting the result of some adverse turn in the chances of the game . I remember once to have accidentally entered a scene like this in going to borrow something from a neighbour 's room ; and I shall never forget the almost tiger-like eagerness and haggard anxiety depicted on the countenances of the men who were playing for sums far too extravagant for an undergraduate 's purse . How Kennedy got home he never knew , but next morning he awoke headachy and feverish , and the first thing he saw on his table was a slip of paper on which was written , `` Kennedy _ admonished _ by the senior Dean for being out after twelve o'clock . '' The notice annoyed and ashamed him . He lay in bed till late , was absent from lecture , and got up to an unrelished breakfast , at which he was disturbed by the entrance of Bruce , to congratulate him on his winnings of the evening before . While Bruce was talking to him , Lillyston also strolled in on his way from lecture to ask what had kept Kennedy away .