ten o'clock
Who ever heard of even a half-blooded Dimmerly dying from a mere faint ? Old age is the only disease that runs in our family , my dear . But I will let you know as soon as he is comfortably asleep . I am going to make my proper parson nephew almost drunk , for once in his life ; and you need n't expect to see him much before ten o'clock to-morrow . '' Lottie , finding her services were not needed in Miss Martell 's room , went down to the kitchen , where she found the half-frozen oarsman-now rigged out in the dress-coat and white vest of the colored waiter -- and the brave coachman who had put his old sea-craft to such good use . They were being royally cared for by the cook and laundress . The poor fellow who out in the boat had thought that the hearts of even his neighbors were as cold and hard as the ice that was destroying them had now forgotten his misanthropy , and was making a supper that , considering the hour , would threaten to an ordinary mortal more peril than that from which he had escaped .