morning, noon
To which Bullock had no objection . And so strongly did the disappointment weigh upon honest Corporal Brock , that even when , after unheard-of quantities of beer , he could scarcely utter a word , he was seen absolutely to weep , and , in accents almost unintelligible , to curse his confounded ill-luck at being deprived , not of a wife , but of a child : he wanted one so , he said , to comfort him in his old age . The time of Mrs. Catherine 's couche drew near , arrived , and was gone through safely . She presented to the world a chopping boy , who might use , if he liked , the Galgenstein arms with a bar-sinister ; and in her new cares and duties had not so many opportunities as usual of quarrelling with the Count : who , perhaps , respected her situation , or , at least , was so properly aware of the necessity of quiet to her , that he absented himself from home morning , noon , and night . The Captain had , it must be confessed , turned these continued absences to a considerable worldly profit , for he played incessantly ; and , since his first victory over the Warwickshire Squire , Fortune had been so favourable to him , that he had at various intervals amassed a sum of nearly a thousand pounds , which he used to bring home as he won ; and which he deposited in a strong iron chest , cunningly screwed down by himself under his own bed . This Mrs. Catherine regularly made , and the treasure underneath it could be no secret to her . However , the noble Count kept the key , and bound her by many solemn oaths -LRB- that he discharged at her himself -RRB- not to reveal to any other person the existence of the chest and its contents .