midnight
In a little while John was tossing among the seaweed -- into a bed of which his body had descended -- and what further dreams -LRB- if any -RRB- he dreamed there beneath the waters , must remain untold till the Judgment Day . FOOTNOTES : -LSB- L -RSB- Little bit . -LSB- M -RSB- A cave . IT was drawing on towards midnight , and the world seemed very lonely . There was a huge , round harvest moon in the sky , and the hills were bathed in a kind of spectral splendour -- a faint and filmy shimmer of silver that left the outlines of objects blurred and elusive , though the scene as a whole emerged clearly for the eye . The wind was sighing drowsily across the moors , while high on the rugged cairns on the hill-tops it was wuthering mournfully beneath the wan grey sky . And ` Lijah , staring sleeplessly through his blindless bedroom-window , felt a growing unrest in the very marrow of his bones .