midnight
I wish you 'd been there , Livy . We had supper , and songs , and funny stories , and all sorts of larks . There are quantities of nice people aboard , and we shall have a perfectly splendid trip . I shall be up bright and early , put on my scarlet stockings , my new boots , and pretty sea-suit , and go in for a jolly day , ' said the ardent Matilda , as she came skipping down at midnight and fell asleep full of rosy visions of the joys of a Life on the ocean wave . ` Deluded child ! ' sighed Lavinia , closing her dizzy eyes upon the swaying garments on the wall , and feebly wishing she had hung herself along with them . In the gray dawn she was awakened by sounds of woe , and peering forth beheld the festive Matilda with one red stocking on and one off , her blonde locks wildly dishevelled , her face of a pale green , and her hands clasping lemons , cologne , and salts , as she lay with her brow upon the cool marble of the toilet-table .