midnight
And here she grasped Vivian with a feverish hand . `` Omnipotent and ineffable essence ! Oh ! I have lived in a land where every mountain , and every stream , and every wood , and every ruin , has its legend and its peculiar spirit ; a land in whose dark forests the midnight hunter , with his spirit-shout , scares the slumbers of the trembling serf ; a land from whose winding rivers the fair-haired Undine welcomes the belated traveller to her fond and fatal embrace ; and you talk to me of omnipotent and ineffable essence ! Miserable Mocker ! It is not true , Vivian Grey ; you are but echoing the world 's deceit , and even at this hour of the night you dare not speak as you do think . You worship no omnipotent and ineffable essence ; you believe in no omnipotent and ineffable essence .