midnight
Jorg was to return early the next morning with a team of horses . This was a great consolation . Old Rahel , too , had regained her self-control , and was sound asleep . The children followed her example , and at midnight Elizabeth slept too . Marx lay beside the hearth , and from his crooked mouth came a strange , snoring noise , that sounded like the last note of an organ-pipe , from which the air is expiring . Hours after all the others were asleep , Adam and the doctor still sat on a sack of straw , engaged in earnest conversation . Lopez had told his friend the story of his happiness and sorrow , closing with the words : `` So you know who we are , and why we left our home .