midnight
Then Mr. Barry came down to see him after Mountjoy had made his visit . It was now January , and the bargaining about the marriage had gone on for more than two months . The letter which he had received from the Squire of Tretton had moved him ; but he had told himself that the property was his own , and that he had a right to enjoy it as he liked best . Whatever might have been Harry 's faults in regard to that midnight affair , it had certainly been true that he had declined to hear the sermons . Mr. Prosper did not exactly mention the sermons to himself , but there was present to him a feeling that his heir had been wilfully disobedient , and the sermons no doubt had been the cause . When he had read the old squire 's letter he did not as yet wish to forgive his nephew . He was becoming very tired of his courtship , but in his estimation the wife would be better than the nephew .