nine o'clock in the morning
Neither did a similar communication from Mrs. Mainwaring , who after three successive attempts to see either her or her father , was forced at last to give up all hope of preventing the marriage . She seemed , indeed , to have been fated . In the meantime , the stranger , having , as he imagined , relieved Lucy 's mind from her dreaded union with Dunroe , and left the further and more complete disclosure of that young nobleman 's position to Mrs. Mainwaring , provided himself with competent legal authority to claim the person of unfortunate Fenton . It is unnecessary to describe his journey to the asylum in which the wretched young man was placed ; it is enough to say that he arrived there at nine o'clock in the morning , accompanied by old Corbet and three officers of justice , who remained in the carriage ; and on asking to see the proprietor , was shown into a parlor , where he found that worthy gentleman reading a newspaper . This fellow was one of those men who are remarkable for thick , massive , and saturnine features . At a first glance he was not at all ill-looking ; but , on examining his beetle brows , which met in a mass of black thick hair across his face , and on watching the dull , selfish , cruel eyes that they hung over -- dead as they were to every generous emotion , and incapable of kindling even at cruelty itself -- it was impossible for any man in the habit of observing nature closely not to feel that a brutal ruffian , obstinate , indurated , and unscrupulous , was before him . His forehead was low but broad , and the whole shape of his head such as would induce an intelligent phrenologist to pronounce him at once a thief and a murderer .