six o'clock
Perhaps he was not uninspired in this by ulterior hopes ; if so , they were richly rewarded . The resources of the City Tavern were suddenly placed at his disposal . He attributed this to a variety of causes all good and sufficient , but the real reason never suggested itself , indeed it was of such a perfidious nature that the judge , open and generous-minded , could not have grasped it . By six o'clock he was undeniably drunk ; at eight he was sounding still deeper depths of inebriety with only the most confused memory of impending events ; at ten he collapsed and was borne up-stairs by Pegloe and his black boy to a remote chamber in the kitchen wing . Here he was undressed and put to bed , and the tavernkeeper , making a bundle of his clothes , retired from the room , locking the door after him , and the judge was doubly a prisoner . Rousing at last from a heavy dreamless sleep the judge was aware of a faint impalpable light in his room , the ashen light of a dull October dawn . He was aware , too , of a feeling of profound depression .