nine in the morning
The unaffected participation of Clarke in all my joys and sorrows , the questions which his feelings impelled him to put , and the fidelity of his nature , as well as the impulse which passion gave me to disburthen my mind , were all of them inducements to speak ; and I informed him of many of those particulars which have already been recited . The more intimately he became acquainted with my history , the more powerfully he seemed imbued with my hopes and fears ; and the better satisfied I was with the confidence I had reposed in him . I am unable to paint the honest indignation of his feelings and phraseology at the injustice which he as well as I supposed had been done me , the depression of his countenance when I dwelt on the despair and wretchedness which the almost impossibility of my obtaining Olivia inspired , and the animation with which he seemed as it were to set his shoulders to the wheel , when my returning fervor led me to the opposite extreme , and gave me confidence in my own powers and the strenuous exertions on which I was resolved . The conversation continued long after we retired to rest ; so that our sleep was short : for we were up again very early , before it was light , and continued our journey to London ; where we arrived a little after nine in the morning . I immediately proceeded to the lodging of Miss Wilmot ; whom I found where I had left her , and who was truly rejoiced to see me . Clarke had never been in London : I therefore took him with me , gave a proper account of him to Miss Wilmot , and we all breakfasted together , while Mary waited ; whose features as well as her words sufficiently testified the unexpected pleasure of the meeting , and who artlessly related the apprehensions of herself and my few friends , at not hearing from me . My first enquiries were concerning Wilmot and Turl ; and I was delighted to learn that Wilmot , whom I left in a sickly state of mind that was seriously alarming , had been awakened by Turl to a more just sense of human affairs ; and had recovered much of the former vigour and elasticity of his talents .