and two o'clock
From the time Mrs. Gaston finished the garment upon which she had been working , she had not even unrolled the other roundabout , and it was now nine o'clock at night . A sense of her destitute condition , and of the pressing necessity there was for her to let every minute leave behind some visible impression , made her , after Henry and Emma were in bed , leave the side of her sick child , though with painful reluctance , and resume her toil . But , ever and anon , as Ella moaned , or tossed restlessly upon her pillow , would the mother lay by her work , and go and stand beside her in silent anguish of spirit , or inquire where she suffered pain , or what she could do to relieve her . Thus passed the hours until twelve , one , and two o'clock , the mother feeling that her child was too sick for her to seek repose , and yet , as she could do nothing to relieve her sufferings , she could not sit idly by and look upon her . For fifteen or twenty minutes at a time she would ply her needle , and then get up and bend over the bed for a minute or two . A thought of duty would again call her back to her position by the work-table , where she would again devote herself to her task , in spite of an aching head , and a reluctant , over-wearied body . Thus she continued until near daylight , when there was an apparent subsidence of Ella 's most painful symptoms .