morning, noon
The man who buys new carpets and new furniture , instead of paying his honest debts , can be no friend of mine . I am sorry to have been mistaken in Henry Cartwright . '' Twice did the unhappy man read this cutting letter ; then , folding it up slowly , he concealed it in one of his pockets . Nothing was said about it to his wife , whose wordy admiration of the new carpet , and morning , noon , and night , for the next two or three days , was a continual reproof of his weakness for having yielded to her wishes in a matter where calm judgement and a principle of right should have prevailed . But she could not help noticing that he was less cheerful ; and once or twice he spoke to her in a way that she thought positively ill-natured . Something was wrong with him ; but what that something was , she did not for an instant imagine . At last the day arrived for cousin Sally Gray 's visit .