midnight
So while your excellency was surrounded by your generals , and had all your thoughts fixed on conquering the kingdom , I rode my mule into the very grove where we met , intending there to spend the night , proceed to Jolliffee in the morning , and seek my way home as best I could . In truth , I felt my poverty pinching , and I was hungry . '' `` Two human ills no amount of courage can overcome , '' rejoined the general , with a patronizing bow . `` It was midnight when I fell asleep , having quenched my thirst , at the spring ; but the thought of home seriously disturbed my slumbers . However , as morning advanced , I got into a deep sleep , from which I awoke when the sun was up ; and hearing the voice of Angelio , which floated soft and sweetly through the grove , as she sang a plaintive song , I fancied myself transported into a fairy land . Now , I must tell you that this innocent girl , as I am told by a priest , and know of myself , had a lover who died not long since , and was buried in this grove , at the foot of a palm-tree . And so strong was her affection for him , that she regularly paid her devotions at his grave .