midnight
`` Watch here an hour , and Major Molineux will pass by , '' said he . Robin gazed with dismay and astonishment on the unprecedented physiognomy of the speaker . The forehead with its double prominence the broad hooked nose , the shaggy eyebrows , and fiery eyes were those which he had noticed at the inn , but the man 's complexion had undergone a singular , or , more properly , a twofold change . One side of the face blazed an intense red , while the other was black as midnight , the division line being in the broad bridge of the nose ; and a mouth which seemed to extend from ear to ear was black or red , in contrast to the color of the cheek . The effect was as if two individual devils , a fiend of fire and a fiend of darkness , had united themselves to form this infernal visage . The stranger grinned in Robin 's face , muffled his party-colored features , and was out of sight in a moment . `` Strange things we travellers see ! ''