midnight
He always put me off in such a smooth way that I could n't tell whether he did or he did n't . But , now , supposing I have relatives , family connections , then who knows but what there may be property coming to me ? That 's an idea worth looking after , surely . '' There 's no saying with what vividness ideas and images go through one 's wakeful brain when the midnight moon is making an exact shadow of your window-sash , with panes of light , on your chamber-floor . How vividly we all have loved and hated and planned and hoped and feared and desired and dreamed , as we tossed and turned to and fro upon such watchful , still nights . In the stillness , the tide upon one side of the Island replied to the dash on the other side in unbroken symphony , and Moses began to remember all the stories gossips had told him of how he had floated ashore there , like a fragment of tropical seaweed borne landward by a great gale . He positively wondered at himself that he had never thought of it more , and the more he meditated , the more mysterious and inexplicable he felt .