midnight of late November
I invented it -- every word of it . '' But she would not believe him . There had been something in the details he had chosen to describe that made her cry herself asleep that night , for the kitten , for Anthony for herself , for the pain and bitterness and cruelty of all the world . Old Adam died on a midnight of late November with a pious compliment to his God on his thin lips . He , who had been flattered so much , faded out flattering the Omnipotent Abstraction which he fancied he might have angered in the more lascivious moments of his youth . It was announced that he had arranged some sort of an armistice with the deity , the terms of which were not made public , though they were thought to have included a large cash payment . All the newspapers printed his biography , and two of them ran short editorials on his sterling worth , and his part in the drama of industrialism , with which he had grown up .