About twelve o'clock
There was his name on the title-page , ` John Duncan , from his affectionate father . ' It had evidently been given to him when a boy , and underneath the name was written this verse : ` Open Thou mine eyes , that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law . ' I said that little prayer before I began to read , and I have said it ever since each time that I have opened my Bible . About twelve o'clock that night the weather became very stormy . A sudden gale set in , and in a very short time the sea became lashed into a fury . I have never heard wind like the wind that night . It literally shrieked and moaned as it blew , and every window and door in the house rattled , and sometimes I felt as if the cottage itself would be swept away .