about two o'clock
`` A woman ! '' cried Maule ; `` then to heaven as fast as your wings will carry you . '' And this man , who braved God , shook with terror before a weak woman ; and so did all these brave bacchanals , who , on hearing the horn when no more remained to be condemned , thought their false God had called them , and had returned to witness the object of their new-born fear . Hurrying into the hearse , the party were in a few minutes posting to Dundee in solemn silence , where they arrived about two o'clock , not to resume their orgies , but to separate each for his home , with the elements in him of a sense of retribution , not forgotten for many a day . At the long run the story finishes , and the chronicler , lifting up his hands to heaven , cries , `` Is there no end , Lord , is there no end to the profanity of man ? Lord , why stayeth the hand of vengeance ? '' If guidman Aminadab had known these things -- which he could n't do , because , like Sir James Colquhoun 's last day -LRB- of the session -RRB- , which he wanted the judges to abolish , this last day -LRB- of the world -RRB- happened after the said Aminadab was in the habit of seeking Mrs. M'Pherson 's parlour -- he would have had greater deductions from his pleasure ; for Aminadab read his Bible , and belonged to the first Secession .