ten o'clock
I have wronged no one , and I am more gifted than any of these friends of mine . Not one of them has studied so severely , and learned as much as I. Not one of them can command the homage of such men as I. And yet I alone am singled out , first , for the most hideous fate which can attack a woman , then to live apart from all good men and women with a man I can not marry , and who may break my heart . I wish that I had not been born , and I would not be dead for all the peace that is in the most silent depths of the Universe . At ten o'clock , that night , the hills were red with the torches of as gay a company as ever had assembled on the Island . The Governor and Dr. Hamilton were keen sportsmen , and nothing delighted them more than to chase infuriated land-crabs down the side of a mountain . There were some twenty men in the party , and most of them followed their distinguished elders through brush and rocky passes . Occasionally , a sudden yell of pain mingled with the shouts of mirth , for land-crabs have their methods of revenge .