midnight
I no longer care for a life which , after all , I should reform in vain if I could not reform it for her ; yet -- yet , selfish and lost that I am ! will it be nothing to think hereafter that I have redeemed her from the disgrace of having loved an outcast and a felon ? If I can obtain honour , will it not , in my own heart at least , -- will it not reflect , however dimly and distantly , upon her ? '' Such , bewildered , unsatisfactory , yet still steeped in the colours of that true love which raises even the lowest , were the midnight meditations of Clifford ; they terminated , towards the morning , in an uneasy and fitful slumber . From this he was awakened by a loud yawn from the throat of Long Ned , who was always the earliest riser of his set . `` Hullo ! '' said he , `` it is almost daybreak ; and if we want to cash our notes and to move the old lord 's jewels , we should already be on the start . ''