midnight
Else , could I hear the perpetual revilings of her implacable family ? -- Else , could I basely creep about -- not her proud father 's house -- but his paddock and garden walls ? -- Yet -LRB- a quarter of a mile distance between us -RRB- not hoping to behold the least glimpse of her shadow ? -- Else , should I think myself repaid , amply repaid , if the fourth , fifth , or sixth midnight stroll , through unfrequented paths , and over briery enclosures , affords me a few cold lines ; the even expected purport only to let me know , that she values the most worthless person of her very worthless family , more than she values me ; and that she would not write at all , but to induce me to bear insults , which unman me to bear ? -- My lodging in the intermediate way at a wretched alehouse ; disguised like an inmate of it : accommodations equally vile , as those I met with in my Westphalian journey . 'T is well , that the necessity for all this arise not from scorn and tyranny ! but is first imposed upon herself !