two o’clock in the morning
They are such acute observers that there is no deceiving them as to the state of the real feeling of their superiors . They know the signs of what passes within with more certainty than any physiognomist , and it was soon seen by all those who had any connection with him that my father was sincere in his disdain of vengeance . ' Further on , describing his political feelings , she says that on the subject of the Union in parliamentary phrase he had not then been able to make up his mind . She describes with some pride his first speech in the Irish House at two o'clock in the morning , when the wearied members were scarcely awake to hear it , and when some of the outstretched members were aroused by their neighbours to listen to him ! ` When people perceived that it was not a set speech , ' says Miss Edgeworth , ` they became interested . ' He stated his doubts just as they had occurred as he threw them by turn into each scale . After giving many reasons in favour of what appeared to be the advantages of the Union , he unexpectedly gave his vote against it , because he said he had been convinced by what he had heard one night , that the Union was decidedly against the wishes of the majority of men of sense and property in the nation .