midnight
-- I think it was that which hanged her , as his strong arm hanged Minister George Burroughs ; -- but it may have been a little mole on one cheek , which the artist had just hinted as a beauty rather than a deformity . You know , I suppose , that nursling imps addict themselves , after the fashion of young opossums , to these little excrescences . `` Witch-marks '' were good evidence that a young woman was one of the Devil 's wet-nurses ; -- I should like to have seen you make fun of them in those days ! -- Then she had a brooch in her bodice , that might have been taken for some devilish amulet or other ; and she wore a ring upon one of her fingers , with a red stone in it , that flamed as if the painter had dipped his pencil in fire ; -- who knows but that it was given her by a midnight suitor fresh from that fierce element , and licensed for a season to leave his couch of flame to tempt the unsanctified hearts of earthly maidens and brand their cheeks with the print of his scorching kisses ? She and I , -- he said , as he looked steadfastly at the canvas , -- she and I are the last of 'em . -- She will stay , and I shall go . They never painted me , -- except when the boys used to make pictures of me with chalk on the board-fences .