midnight
Did he wish to go to the Holy Land or not ? What a question ? Had it come to that ? Was it possible that he could whisper such an enquiry , even to his midnight soul ? He did wish to go to the Holy Land ; his purpose was not in the least faltering ; he most decidedly wished to go to the Holy Land , but he wished also to go thither in the company of Lady Bertie and Bellair . Tancred could not bring himself to desert the only being perhaps in England , excepting himself , whose heart was at Jerusalem ; and that being a woman ! There seemed something about it unknightly , unkind and cowardly , almost base .