one o'clock
To be a saint when sick ; to find the conscience active when defeat overwhelmed it -- that was for the weak dregs of humanity . But such paltering was not for him . On the one hand revenge , on the other duty -- which was he to follow ? The wretched man could come to no decision ; and when the fingers of his watch pointed to one o'clock he lay down on the couch to rest . It was not sleep that he wanted ; sleep had of late become too full of terrors ; but sleep overcame him , nevertheless . His face , when he slept , was the face of a man in pain ; and dreams came that were the distorted reflections of his waking thoughts . He dreamed that he had died in infancy .