midnight
My dear friends , do you put no confidence , then , in the word of our excellent emperor and the good archduke , who has always loved us so dearly ? '' `` No , no , we put implicit confidence in their word ! '' shouted the Tyrolese , with one accord . `` The messenger will surely come , just have a little patience , '' added Hofer , with a pleasant nod ; `` the day is not yet at an end , and until midnight we may smoke yet many a pipe and drink many a glass of beer . -- Anna Gertrude see to it that the glasses of the guests are always well filled . '' Anna Gertrude , a fine-looking matron of thirty-six , with florid cheeks and flashing hazel eyes , had just placed before her husband another jug , filled with foaming beer , and she nodded now to her Andy with a smile , showing two rows of faultless white teeth . `` I and the girls will attend to the guests , '' she said , `` but the men do not drink any thing .