seven minutes before ten at night
Again and again I wondered , `` Why does he not ? '' But he never did . Nor did he look at me , after the production of the miniature , until the last closing minutes of the trial arrived . We retired to consider , at seven minutes before ten at night . The idiotic vestryman and his two parochial parasites gave us so much trouble that we twice returned into Court to beg to have certain extracts from the Judge 's notes re-read . Nine of us had not the smallest doubt about those passages , neither , I believe , had any one in the Court ; the dunder-headed triumvirate , having no idea but obstruction , disputed them for that very reason . At length we prevailed , and finally the Jury returned into Court at ten minutes past twelve .