midnight
Had it actually been Davy Jones with whom he had striven on the midnight sea ? and had his adversary , instead of drowning , spread his bat-wings for home , and left his supposititious murderer to disquiet himself in vain ? Verily , a practical joke worthy its author ! This conceit revealed others , as a lightning-flash the midnight landscape . Balder was encircled by witchcraft , -- had been ferried by a real Charon to no imaginary Hades . The quaint secluded beauty of circumstance was an illusion , soon to be dispelled . Gnulemah herself -- miserable thought !