midnight
He had dressed his mind up in the showy rags and remnants of our speech as a savage will dress his body in incongruous clothing , and of what he was , inside , I could form no conjecture . Between us was an impassable barrier . I was trying to realize what made me so silent before his volubility , when the bell on the forecastle of the _ Corydon _ struck eight times . It was midnight and my watch was over . I said good-bye . ` I will visit your ship , ' said my friend , Mister George . ` I have been on plenty ships .