midnight
An ' yit I 'd marry you ef you wuz pyo white ! -- Colo ' line ! -- I 'll cross fifty colo ' lines whenev ' I feels like it ! '' By midnight every Rosemonter at the ball had heard this speech repeated , and knew that it had hardly left the mulatto 's throat before he had fled with shrieks of terror from the pretended ghosts of his earlier wives , and with the curses of a coward 's rage from the vain clutches of his would-be captors . -- But we go too fast . Night fell . The hotel shone .