nearly midnight
Why , if the stock goes to what they call par -- and that 's where they all go , so Maria says -- I 'll have -- have -- two thousand , less Mr. Taylor 's two hundred -- I 'll have eighteen hundred dollars ! '' The little fellow in her bosom was rubbing away now with all his might . She could hear his heart beat against her own . ***** It was nearly midnight when the two went to bed . Stick after stick had been thrown on the fire ; the logs had flamed and crackled in sympathy with their own joyous feelings , and had then fallen into piled-up coals , each heap a castle of delight , rosy in the glow of freshly enkindled hopes . And the song in her heart never ceased . Day by day a fresh note was added ; everything she touched ; everything she saw was transformed .