midnight
`` It ish no vooling ! '' And Carl insisted on Penn 's making the threat . `` Veil , then , I vill vake up and go ` long mit you . '' Mr. Villars had been for some time sleeping soundly ; for it was now long past midnight , and weariness had overcome him . Penn awoke him ; but the old man refused to escape . `` Go without me . I shall be too great a burden for you . ''