midnight
But it was a cutting question . She had an arch look as she asked it . `` Well sir , '' said she , with a graceful air , in a half averted direction , `` you have some things to learn about your fellow-countrymen which are not put down in your Moral Philosophies . Please do not betray your ignorance on subjects about which you are evidently in midnight darkness . '' She was some ways from me , but I heard her continue : `` Was there ever anything like this Northern ignorance and prejudice about the Southern people ! '' I had nothing to do but resume my lonely walk . My sense of desolateness no tongue can tell .