midnight
From that moment my mind was wandering . I knew little what I said , or looked , or did . My chat with those around me became , on a sudden , bald and disjointed ; and when I beheld the pair , both nobly formed -- he tall , graceful , manly -- she , beautiful and bending as a lily -- a purity beaming , amid all their brightness , from her eyes -- a purity which , I had taught myself to believe , was no longer in her heart -- when I beheld them advance into the floor , conspicuous over all the rest , in most eyes , as they certainly were in mine -- I can not describe -- you may conjecture -- the cold , fainting sickness which overcame my soul . I could have lain myself down upon the lone , midnight rocks , and surrendered myself to solitude and storm for ever . They entered the stately measures of the Spanish dance But the grace of movement which won the murmuring applause of all around me , only increased the agony of my afflictions . I saw their linked arms -- the compliant , willing movements of their mutual forms -- and dark were the images of guilt and hateful suspicion which entered my brain and grew to vivid forms , in action before me . I fancied the fierce , passionate yearnings in the heart of Edgerton ; I trembled when I conjectured what fancies filled the heart of Julia .