MIDNIGHT
`` Farewell , most respected , most dear , most honored ! My passing soul seems in those words . O , may the Father of heaven bless with his almighty care her whose name will ever be the first and the last in the prayer of the far distant `` THADDEUS CONSTANTINE SOBIESKI . `` HARROWBY VILLAGE , MIDNIGHT . '' When he had finished this epistle , with a tremulous hand he consigned it to the same cover that contained his letter to Somerset . Then writing a few lines to the worthy master of the inn , -LRB- the brother-in - law of the faithful servant of his late lamented maternal friend , -RRB- saying that a sudden occasion had required his immediate departure at that untimely hour , he enclosed a liberal compensation in gold for the attentive services of both the honest man and his warm-hearted wife . Having sealed each packet , he disposed them so on the table that they might be the first things seen on entering the room .