half past nine
Bless me ! you shall hide in the garret after this , but for my part , I shall still treat the fellow civilly , for he holds us , as it were , in the hollow of his hand , '' and he went into the store in a pet . There was one redeeming feature about the disturbances in Stockbridge . The early bedtime habits of the people were too deeply fixed to be affected by any political revolution , and however noisy the streets might be soon after dusk , by half past nine or ten all was quiet . As Perez crossed the green , after leaving the store , the only sound that broke the stillness of the night , was the rumble of wheels on the Boston road . It was Sedgwick 's carriage , bearing him back to the capital , to take his seat in the already convened State Senate . If his flying visit home had been a failure so far as his law business before the Supreme Court was concerned , it had at least enabled him to gain a vivid conception of the extent and virulence of the insurrection .