midnight
`` I bid the fellow hold his tongue , but you may conceive the feelings that were awakened in me at this strange discourse of Paul 's , whom I suddenly found initiated into my dark secret , and who so unexpectedly displayed a knowledge of cabalistic matters , for which he was probably indebted to the coffee-prophetess . I passed the most uneasy day I ever had in my life . Paul was not to be got out of the room all that evening , but was constantly returning and finding something to do . When it was near midnight , and he was at last obliged to go , he said softly , as if praying to himself : ` Bear God in thy heart -- think of the salvation of thy soul -- and thou wilt resist the enticements of Satan . ' `` I can not describe the manner -- I may almost say , the fearful manner -- in which my soul was moved at these simple words of my servant . All my endeavours to keep myself awake were in vain . I fell into that state of confused dreaming , which I could not look upon as natural , but as the operation of some foreign principle .