ten o’clock
And when Guido died , did the spectre betake himself to those ancient sepulchres , there awaiting a new victim , till it was Miriam 's ill-hap to encounter him ? `` I do not acknowledge the resemblance at all , '' said Miriam , looking narrowly at the sketch ; `` and , as I have drawn the face twenty times , I think you will own that I am the best judge . '' A discussion here arose , in reference to Guido 's Archangel , and it was agreed that these four friends should visit the Church of the Cappuccini the next morning , and critically examine the picture in question ; the similarity between it and the sketch being , at all events , a very curious circumstance . It was now a little past ten o'clock , when some of the company , who had been standing in a balcony , declared the moonlight to be resplendent . They proposed a ramble through the streets , taking in their way some of those scenes of ruin which produced their best effects under the splendor of the Italian moon . The proposal for a moonlight ramble was received with acclamation by all the younger portion of the company . They immediately set forth and descended from story to story , dimly lighting their way by waxen tapers , which are a necessary equipment to those whose thoroughfare , in the night-time , lies up and down a Roman staircase .