midnight
-- By clipping a limb ! Victor overcame the Pessimist in his own royal cranium-Court . He entertained a pronounced dissension with bachelors pretending to independence . It could not be argued publicly , and the more the pity : -- for a slight encouragement , he would have done it : his outlook over the waves of bachelors and -LRB- by present conditions mostly constrained -RRB- spinsters -- and another outlook , midnight upon Phlegethon to the thoughts of men , made him deem it urgent . And it helped the plea in his own excuse , as Colney pointed out to the son of Nature . That , he had to admit , was true . He charged it upon Mrs. Burman , for twisting the most unselfish and noblest of his thoughts ; and he promised himself it was to cease on the instant when the circumstance , which Nature was remiss in not bringing about to-day or to-morrow , had come to pass .