ten o'clock in the evening
`` You speak confidently , Andy ? '' `` I do , for I know its virtue . '' The gentleman , who had in his hand a prescription for which he had paid five dollars to one of the most skilful and judicious physicians in New England , strange as it may seem , listened to this bar-keeper , and in the end actually destroyed the prescription , and poured down his throat a glass of `` Mrs. -- 's Cordial . '' It is no matter of surprise that , ere ten o'clock in the evening , the gentleman 's premonitory symptoms , which had experienced a temporary abatement , assumed a more alarming character . And now , instead of going to , he was obliged to send for , a physician . Doctor -- , whom he had consulted , was called in , and immediately recognised his patient of the morning . `` I 'm sorry to find you worse , '' said he .