two o’clock at night
but the dogs only opened one eye at him , sleepily , and closed it again . `` I 'll have Sambo and Quimbo up here , to sing and dance one of their hell dances , and keep off these horrid notions , '' said Legree ; and , putting on his hat , he went on to the verandah , and blew a horn , with which he commonly summoned his two sable drivers . Legree was often wont , when in a gracious humor , to get these two worthies into his sitting-room , and , after warming them up with whiskey , amuse himself by setting them to singing , dancing or fighting , as the humor took him . It was between one and two o'clock at night , as Cassy was returning from her ministrations to poor Tom , that she heard the sound of wild shrieking , whooping , halloing , and singing , from the sitting-room , mingled with the barking of dogs , and other symptoms of general uproar . She came up on the verandah steps , and looked in . Legree and both the drivers , in a state of furious intoxication , were singing , whooping , upsetting chairs , and making all manner of ludicrous and horrid grimaces at each other . She rested her small , slender hand on the window-blind , and looked fixedly at them ; -- there was a world of anguish , scorn , and fierce bitterness , in her black eyes , as she did so .