midnight
-- Nay , nay , it must not be ! Is that the kind of power education is ? Power to tear children from their parents ? Power to expose their young heads to midnight storms ? Power to make them eager to go , and willing to stay away , from their paternal homes ? Then indeed the priest had said only too truly , that these public schools teach every thing except morals and religion ! From the depth of St. Pierre 's heart there quickly came a denial of the charge ; and on the moment , like a chanted response , there fell upon his listening ear a monotonous intonation from within the door .